Careless Love- Ora Payne (NC) 1966 Burton/Manning
[From: Burton & Manning, Folksongs 2 pp.103-104.
R. Matteson 2017]
Careless Love- sung by Ora Payne of Beech Mountain, NC on October 28, 1966.
Love, oh love, oh careless love,
Love, oh love, how can it be?
Love, oh love, oh careless love,
To love someone who don't love me.
1. Studied what a foolish woman I am,
I have studied what a foolish woman I am,
I have studied what a foolish woman I am,
to fall in love wit ha married man[1].
I'll take a sweet kiss I'll leave you here,
I take a sweet kiss I'll leave you here,
I take a sweet kiss, I leave you to stay,
Cause I know the married man won't be late.
Mama, mama hold your tongue,
Mama, mama hold your tongue,
Mama, mama hold your tongue,
You used to court when you were young.
Papa, papa so the same,
Papa, papa so the same,
Papa, papa so the same,
Cause you was the one that changed her name.
Love, oh love, oh love divine,
Love, oh love, oh love divine,
Love, oh love, oh love divine,
To see and know I'll never be thine.
Go and dig my grave with a silver spade,
Dig my grave with a silver spade,
Go and dig my grave with a silver spade,
And let me down with a golden chain[2].
1. See: Norman Woodlieff "I Fell In Love w/ Married Man," 1929
2. Crow Jane