Bluegrass Messengers

Auxville Love- Robin Cornett (KY) c.1921 Combs

[My date. From Folk-Songs of the Southern United States, p.176. Josiah Combs, 1925. Stanza two is from the related broadside, Picking Lilies/Unfortunate Swain.

R. Matteson 2017]

"The Auxville Love." Contributed by Mrs. Robin Cornett, Hindman, Knott Co., Kentucky. No date given. Collected Josiah Combs.

In Auxville town of Delaware
My father lived, a merchant there;
I had a love, a true-love there,
Which filled my heart with sad despair.

Down through the green meadow a fence row there went,
Where she gathered red flowers with deep content;
She gathered of all, she plucked, she pulled,
Till at length she rolled her apron full.

On yonder's high mountain there grew a green pine,
The only one that she could find;
The only one that she could find,
To ease her heart, her troubled mind.

Down on the green grass she made her a bed,
A pillow of sweet flowers lie under her head;
And as she lie down, these words she did say:
"I will rise no more till the judgment day."

No sooner did her blood it run cold,
Than unto him the news was told;
"I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad," said he,
"I'm glad she's in eternity."

Come all ye young maids, wherever you be,
And I pray, take advice from me:
And to a young man don't ever give way,
For if you do, they will lead you astray