Cecil Sharp collected songs in the Appalachian region of the U.S.A.  Although the Somerset and Appalachian singers from that era may never have met, they were connected through the lineage of folk song and melody in a way that current UK and US artists are today.

Jane Chapman from West Harptree in 1906 and Mrs Jane Gentry from Hot Springs, North Carolina in 1916 gave Cecil Sharp a version of 'My Mother Bid Me. '