The Farmer's Curst Wife

The Farmer's Curst Wife is Child ballad number 278. It has been recorded by Pete Seeger and Jean Ritchie

Synopsis

A farmer had a bad woman for his wife, and one day the devil came for her. They reached Hell, and the gates were shut, so she struck him. She made life in hell so bad that the devil brought her back to her husband.^[1]

References

^ Würzbach, Natascha, and Simone M. Salz. 1995. Motif index of the Child corpus: the English and Scottish popular ballad. Berlin: W. de Gruyter. ISBN 3110142902. p. 235.

External links

Columbia State University
Burns's version
mudcat
The Farmer's Curst Wife
An American variant with notes. (In most browsers, this site will play a MIDI file when you navigate to it).