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Georgie / Young George Oxbury / George Stoole / George of Oxford / The Hanging of Georgie / As I Walked over London Bridge / Geordie (Child No. 209) - Sung by Daron Douglas on "Apple Seed and Apple Thorn" (2012). Daron is the great-granddaughter of Jane Hicks Gentry of Hot Springs, North Carolina and keeps the singing tradition alive. Cecil Sharp noted the song from Mrs. Gentry on September 14, 1916.

Note by Kevin W.:
This is one of a handful of North Carolina versions that render the name as "Charlie".

Song transcription:

As I went over London's bridge
One morning bright and early,
I saw a maid forbide the way
Lamenting for poor Charlie.

It's Charlie's never robbed the king's high court,
Nor he's never murdered any,
But he stole sixteen of his milk-white steeds
And sold them in old Virginy.

Go saddle me my milk-white steed,
The brown one ain't so speedy,
And I'll ride away to the king's high court
Enquiring for poor Charlie.

She rode, she rode to the king's high court
Enquiring for poor Charlie.
Fair lady you have come too late,
For he's condemned already.

It's Charlie's never robbed the king's high court,
Nor he's never murdered any,
But he stole sixteen of his milk-white steeds
And sold them in old Virginy.

It's will you promise me? she said,
O promise me, I beg thee,
To hang him by a white silk cord
That never has hung any.