Poor Little Jo

On Springthyme SPRCD 1038
Jane Turriff - Singin is Ma Life

Sung by Jane Turriff:

Poor Little Joe collected by Sharp and others in the Appalachians.


Poor Little Joe

1: Cold blows the blast, down fell the snow.
Nowhere for shelter, an nowhere to go;
No mother nor father, in their graves they lie low,
Cast out in this wide world is poor little Joe.

2; A carriage was passing with a lady inside,
Who stared at poor Joe, as her own darling child;
Joe followed the carriage, wi the tears in his eyes,
Although he was singing, he wished himself dead.

3: Cold blows the blast, down fell the snow and beyond.
Nowhere for shelter, an nowhere to go,
No mother nor father, in their graves they lie low,
Cast out in this wide world is poor little Joe.


Recorded by Ailie Munro and Tom Atkinson, 1975.
School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh.

Traditional arranged Jane Turriff
Springthyme Records © 1996.