Va., has been included in Appendix E because of the slight chance that the version has survived in American folk tradition. 14, sung by Aunt Mary Wilson of Gilmer County, W. Bush, Folk Songs of Central West Virginia, 2 vols., Ravenswood, W.Va., 19, I, pp.41-44 and has been excluded from Appendix E, since it almost certainly was not learned from folk tradition D. says, "A version sung by Bud Bush of New Hampshire at a West Virginia folk festival is printed by M. Traditional ballads were often rewritten in a more fashioniable style for the broadside press, but there is no textual evidence to prove that the American 'secondary ballad' is a re written version of Child 56 and it has therefore been excluded from this study."įootnote 9.
Frequently collected in America, however, has been a 'secondary ballad' written in a later, more artificial style, which tells the story of Lazarus and the rich man ('Dives' is not used), but follows the bible narrative much more closely than Child 56. Since one of these American texts has been adapted, it is, however, included among the traditional texts. "Child 56 has been collected in America only twice and both of these texts may have been learned from books printed in the twentieth century. From A Critical Study of Some Traditional Religious Ballads by Mary Diane (Molly) McCabe in 1980:
There are two versions that are actual versions of Child 56 that have been found recently and both version appear, almost certainly, not to be traditional. "Dives and Lazarus" will be found here listed as an appendix.īronson, echoing Barry, includes US versions of Dives and Lazarus as his Appendix, and says in Child Ballads Traditional in the United States: "At the same time it seems to have travelled with the itinerant Baptist singing-masters through the Southern and Southwestern States, in their Shaped-note hymnals." This ballad has been considered a version of Child 56 by some collectors. [In the Southern United States there is a ballad known as Dives and Lazarus (or more commonly Lazarus and Dives), that is an independent ballad from Child 56 and was written by an unknown author.
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