Blue-eyed Girl: Jim Couch (KY) 1954 Roberts
[From Roberts, "Sang Branch Settlers," p.168. Stanza 3 is known as "Philadelphia" See Sharp EFSSA II, No. 266
R. Matteson 2018]
Blue-eyed Girl: sung by Jim Couch of Harlan, Kentucky collected by Leonard Roberts, 1954.
1. Fly Around my blue-eyed girl
Fly around my daisy
Every time I see that gal
you dang high run me crazy.
2. The higher up the cherry tree,
Riper grows the cherry,
Sooner a boy courts a girl,
Sooner they will marry,
3. Cincinnati is a purty place
And so is Philadelphia
The streets is lined with a dollar bill
and the purty gals a plenty.
4. The black-eyed girl went back on me,
The blue-eyed girl won't have me;
Before I'd marry the cross-eyed girl,
A-single I would tarry.
5. I went to see my old truelove,
I never was there before.
She lay on the old straw bed,
And I lay on the floor.
6. She took me by the hand
And led me in to supper.
Stumped my toe on the the leg,
And stove my nose in the butter.