If I Had a Ribbon Bow

SSA choir with piano
by  Steven Paxton

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This traditional folksong from Kentucky first appeared in print in 1919 in John Jacob Niles’s Seven Kentucky Mountain Ballads—nobody knows how long it’s actually been around. This arrangement, with a steadily flowing piano accompaniment, moves along quickly and captures  both the poignancy and frustration of a lonely mountain girl:

If I had a ribbon bow to bind my hair;
If I had a fancy sash, my love would think me fair.

SKU: SPN-010 Categories: , Instrumentation:
Descriptive Tags:American, Ballad, Folksong, Freedom, Human dignity, Mountain, Social Justice
Difficulty:Medium
Duration:1-5 Minutes
Language:English
Sacred or Secular:Secular
Voicing:SSA

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