141. A False-Hearted Lover

 

141
A False-Hearted Lover

Akin to this, though not the same, are songs reported from Ken-
tucky (Archive of American Folk Song under this title) and Ten-
nessee (SSSA 170, ETWVMB 40). In all of these the boy speaks,
not the girl.

'A False-Hearted Lover.' Collected by C. B. Houck from Miss Pearl
Webb of Pineda, Avery county, in April 1920.

1 There is more than one, there is more than two,
There is more pretty boys, my love, than you,
There is more pretty boys than you.

2 You've slighted me once, you've slighted me twice.
You'll never slight me any more, my love.
You'll never slight me any more.

3 You slighted me for that other girl ;
You may take her now and go, my love,
You may take her now and go.

4 For the loss of one is the gain of two

And the choice out of twenty-five more, my love,
And the choice out of twenty-five more.

5 I wished to the Lord you had never been born
Or have died when I was young, my love,

Or have died when I was young.