"Sweet Betsy from Pike" is an American ballad about a migration from a Pike County (probably Missouri) to California. This Gold Rush-era song, with lyrics written by John A. Stone before 1858, was collected and published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 American Songbag. It was recorded by Burl Ives on his debut album Wayfaring Stranger. The melody is the English tune "Villikins and His Dinah", which is also used for the Irish partisan song "The Old Orange Flute", the Irish War of Independence song "The Bold Black and Tans" and the bawdy song "The Thrashing Machine". It is related to the jig tune "Paddy Whack". It was recorded by Oscar Brand, Bob Gibson, Cisco Houston, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, The Limeliters, The New Christy Minstrels and others.