Butcher Boy- Mrs. Fairbanks (VT) 1939 Flanders
[Fragment from LAP24, a digitized archival cassette in the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives.
This corresponds fairly closely to the UK versions of I Wish, I Wish.
R. Matteson 2017]
Butcher Boy - voice performance by Mrs. John Fairbanks at N. Springfield, Vermont. Dated 10-05-1939.
I Wish I wish I wish in vain,
I wish I was a maid again,
But a maid again I'll never be,
Til an orange grows on an apple tree.
When I wore my dresses low
He followed me through frost and snow,
Now I wear them to my chin,
He'll pass the door, and won't stop in.