Madam, I am Come A-courtin'- Mrs. Glasscock (NC) 1943 Brown
[From Brown Collection, 1952 volume III. Their notes follow,
R. Matteson 2017]
8. The Quaker's Wooing
Compare 'A Paper of Pins,' 'Madam, Will You Walk,' 'The Courting- Cage.' This particular satire on the wooer is not always d'stinct from these and other wooing dialogues. 'Old Simon,' reported throuh Wilthiro (FSUT JJ), 'The Wooing,' from Michigan (BSSM 417-icS), and 'The Drunkard's Courtship,' from North Carolina (FSRA 199-200) are kindred pieces. What may fairly be reckoned forms of 'The Quaker's Wooing?' have been reported from New England (FSONK 276-8), Virginia (FSV 235-6), Arkansas (OFS 111 58-60), Missouri (BSM 265, OFS 111 258-9), Ohio I BSO 293-4). Indiana (JAFL xlix 247, SFLQ 111 206, v 182-3), Michigan (BSSM 424-7), and Iowa (ABS 223-4). In many of these cases it is a play-party song.
"Madam, I am Come A-courtin' " from the manuscript songbuok of Mrs. Harold Glasscock of Raleigh, lent to Dr. White in 1943. The songs in this book Mrs. Glasscock learned from her parents.
1. Madam, I am come a-courtin',
Oh, dear, oh dear, oh, dear me.
I'm for pleasure, not for sporting,
Oh. dear, oh, dear, oh, dear me.
2. 'Madam, I have gold and silver,
Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear me.'
'Go right home and tell your father,
Tiddle dum dink dum dink dum da.
3 'That you could not get me ready,
Tiddle dum dink dum dink dum da.'
'Madam, I am a Presbyterian,
Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear me.'