Butchler's Boy - Vern Smeiser (US) 1963 REC
[From Art of Field Recording Volume 2. I have no info on informant yet,
R. Matteson 2017]
"The Butcher's Boy" sung by Vern Smeiser 1963
In New York City where I did dwell,
A butchler's boy I loved so well,
He courted me, my life away
And then with me he would not stay.
He took another girl on his knee,
He told her things he wouldn't tell me,
Shall I be young, shall I be free,
Shall I love a boy that don't love me?
Oh no, no, no, that cannot be,
Cause I am young and can be free,
Oh no, no, no, that cannot be,
Till apples grow on a peach tree.
She went upstairs to make her bed,
And nothing to her mother said,
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