"Sweet Betsy from Pike" is an American ballad about the trials of a pioneer named Betsy and her lover Ike who migrate from Pike County (theorized to be Pike County, Missouri[1]) to California.[2] This Gold Rush-era song, with lyrics published by John A. Stone in 1858,[3] was collected and published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 American Songbag.[4] It was recorded by Burl Ives on February 11, 1941[5] for his debut album Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger.
The melody derives from a popular English comic song "Villikins and his Dinah", first published in London in 1853 and which had become a hit in America by 1855. Villikins and his Dinah closely parodies the lyrics of an old street ballad extant in England from the early 19th century, William and Diana; but it is unclear whether it simply borrowed the same melody as the existing ballad it parodies, or used a different tune written especially for theatrical performance.
Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[6]
^Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet Betsy History
^Digital Tradition Folk Music Database: link
^The Mudcat Cafe: link
^Sandburg, Carl (1927). The American Songbag. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. p. 107. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
^Naxos: link Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
^Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010.
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