Old Betty Larkin

Version from the American Folk Song Collection.

Link to Jean Ritchie's recording with Alan Lomax, recorded in 1949.

Jill Trinka's Recording from her "My Little Rooster" collection.

Version from the Handy Play Party book, which also credits Jean Ritchie.

In this story, The Quare Women, published in 1923, the author mentions the "play-game and song Old Betty Larkin," which implies that the song was somewhat widespread in rural Kentucky by 1923.