Bedroom Window- Eva Esdorn (SC) 1969 Joyner
[My title. From: Folk Song in South Carolina by Charles Joyner, 1971.
R. Matteson 2016]
[Bedroom Window]- As sung by Eva Esdorn, Murrells Inlet, SC; August 1969. Recorded by C.W.J.
Who is at my bedroom window,
Who is that this time of night?
It is I, your old true lover
Sleeping under the willow tree.
Mary, Mary go and ask your mother
If she'll consent you to be my wife;
If she says no come quickly and tell me
This night no longer I'll bother thee.
It is no use to ask my mother
For she intends to keep me free
So Willie dear go and court some other
Another girl you'll love like me.
I can court some other fair girl
I can climb the tallest trees,
But Mary dear there's none I love
There's none I love as well as thee.
Mary Mary go and ask your father
If he'll consent you to be my bride
If he says no, come quickly and tell me
This night no longer I'll bother thee.
It is no use to ask my father,
For he intends to keep me free;
So Willie dear please leave me forever,
For there none, I love as well as thee.
Willie pulled out his golden dagger
Stabbed it through his aching heart;
Goodbye Mary, goodbye darling,
I am now at rest with thee.
Mary picked up the golden dagger,
Stabbed it through her milk-white breast;
Goodbye Mama goodbye daddy,
I and Willie are now at rest.