Waxford Girl- Alice Mancour (VT) 1942 Flanders B
[My B designation. From a recording in the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives. Classification #: LAP35. Track 14. Dated 10-17-1942.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/HHFBC_tapes_D34A
The quality of the recording is poor-- Mancour's version is weak and possibly forgotten in parts as she stops at one spot and doesn't seem to remember the end.
R. Matteson 2016]
B. "Waxford Girl." - sung by Alice Mancour of Bellows Falls, Vermont on 10-17-1942. Partial transcription.
Was in the town of Wexford
I owned a flour mill.
Was in the town of Wexford
I owned a flour mill.
I fell in love with the Waxford girl
With the dark and rolling eyes
I asked her for to walk with me,
And this she [?]
I walked along [?]
Till we came to level ground.
I pulled a stake right from the fence,
And knocked this poor maid down.
Lie there, lie there, you Waxford girl
You never shall be my bride.
Lie there, lie there you Waxford girl
You never shall me be tied[1].
He went down to his mother's house
About twelve o'clock at night
His mother she woke up,
In an awful, awful fright.
Son, oh son, what have you done,
To bloody your hands and your clothes?
The answer that I made for her,
Was, bleeding at the nose.
He called for a handkerchief,
To tie around his head;
Likewise for a candle,
To light himself to bed.
[ Last stanza ?]
1. It may be the second line repeated but usually it rhymes with "tied"