PUBLIC -- traditional words. Basis: Child ballad 10 / Roud 8 (earliest print a 1656 broadside), no author credited for the sung text: the Echoes album credit on Genius reads "Writers: Child ballads & Traditional", and the YouTube label metadata for the track reads "Composer, Lyricist: Unknown". Emily Smith's lines closely follow the traditional Johnny / golden-ring / miller's-dam text printed at Mainly Norfolk for Niamh Parsons and Anne Parsons-Dunne. Identity: https://mainlynorfolk.info/frankie.armstrong/songs/thetwasisters.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Sisters_(folk_song) (both read 2026-10-22). Recording: Echoes, 2014 (White Fall Records). Lyrics: Genius transcription https://genius.com/Emily-smith-twa-sisters-lyrics (chosen text); Musixmatch-family transcription (identical on songlyrics.com, sweetslyrics.com and LRCLIB, one lineage, machine-heard, used only to cross-check) https://sweetslyrics.com/emily-smith/twa-sisters-lyrics ; traditional comparison text at Mainly Norfolk (URL above). Chords (all machine-detected, read 2026-10-22): ChordU https://chordu.com/chords-tabs-emily-smith-twa-sisters-id_wlNuYaX9jTw and https://chordu.com/chords-tabs-emily-smith-twa-sisters-blas-2012--id_tD3HR0D-Pmg ; Yalp https://www.yalp.io/chords/emily-smith-twa-sisters-510e . Chordify grid = reference only https://chordify.net/chords/emily-smith-songs/twa-sisters-chords .

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