Careless Love- R.J. Slay (MS) 1909 Perrow
[From E.C. Perrow's "Songs and Rhymes of the South" The Journal of American Folk-lore - page 147, 1916. The second stanza is the chorus.
R. Matteson 2017]
3. CARELESS LOVE (From Mississippi; country whites; MS. of R. J. Slay; 1909.)
I'm going to leave you now;
I'm going ten thousand miles.
If I go ten million more,
I'll come back to my sweetheart again.
Love, oh, love! 'tis careless love (twice)
You have broken the heart of many a poor boy
But you will never break this heart of mine.
I cried last night when I come home (twice)
I cried last night and night before;
I'll cry to-night; then I'll cry no more
Who will shoe your pretty feet?
And who will glove your hand
Who will kiss your red rosy cheeks?
When I am in that far-off land?
"Pa will shoe my pretty little feet;
Ma will glove my hand;
You may kiss my red rosy cheeks,
When you come from that far-off land."