A title carried by more than one American tune. Taylor Kimble (1892-1979) of Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia played a cross-tuned modal version that most current settings descend from, circulated through the Fuzzy Mountain String Band’s 1972 Rounder album and Phillips’s Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2. Alan Jabbour considered the Kimble tune an adaptation of the Appalachian ballad tune “Bangum and the Boar” (Child 18); Henry Glassie collected a ballad text under this title in 1962 from a singer whose mother came from Laurel Fork.
NOTE: Child #18 refers to the Child Ballads classification system created by Harvard professor Francis James Child (1825-1896). Between 1882-1898, Child compiled “English and Scottish Popular Ballads,” cataloguing 305 traditional ballads and assigning each a number. Child #18 is “Sir Lionel” (also known as “Bang’um and the Boar”).
