Butcher Boy - Goldie Gardner (AR) 1953 Parler C
[Fragment from Ozark Folksong Collection; Reel 132 Item 2. Collected by Mary C. Parler
Listen: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/OzarkFolkSong/id/2920/rec/4
R. Matteson 2017]
The Butcher Boy- sung by Mrs. Goldie Gardner Springdale, Ark. on Dec. 28, 1953
In Newport town I used to dwell,
With a butcher boy that I loved do well;
He courted me my life away,
And then with me he would not stay.
. . . .
It's he'll go there, and he'll set down,
He'll take this strange girl on his knee,
He'll tell to her what he won't tell me.
I'll go up stairs, I'll fix my bed,
Go dig my bed both wide and deep,
Place a little white dove upon my breast
To show this world that I died for love.