| Lyrics: | THE COURTING CASE
O Sir, I see you come again
Pray tell me why it's so;
When I
left you in Gordonsville
I told you to come no more.
O madam, I have come
again,
I'll tell you why it's so :
When I left you in Gordonville,
I told you I was
coming once more.
O madam, I have a very fine house,
It is new erected fine;
It
all can be at your command
If you will be my bride.
Kind sir, I know your very fine
house,
And also very nice yard;
O who will stay with me at night
When you are at
playing of cards?
O madam, I don't play cards at night,
I never thought it was
right;
If you will consent and marry me
I won't stay out one night.
Kind sir, I
know what that is said for,
It's just to take me in;
When you get me at your
command
You'll drink and gamble again.
O madam, I have a very fine field,
It's
sixty acres wide;
It all can be at your command
If you will be my bride.
O sir,
I know your very fine field,
And also very nice fruit;
When I come in, I'll turn you
out,
Fur you know that hog will root.
O madam, I have a very fine horse,
His
pace is like the tide.
If you will consent and marry me
O you may have him to
ride.
O sir, I know your very fine horse,
Thee horse that knows no harm ;
His
master loves to drink and gamble,
And I'm 'feared his horse might learn.
O madam,
you have red, rosy cheeks,
And I have got my land;
O madam, you have your coal-black
hair.
O keep them and be damned.
O sir, I have my red rosy cheeks,
And you have
got your land;
O sir, I have my coal-black hair,
And they are another
man's.
From English Folk Songs in the Southern Appalachians, Sharp.
Collected from
Mrs. Lawson Gray, VA 1918
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