Down in Adairsville- Hedy West (GA) 1967 REC
[From Hedy West's recording "Ballads" on Topic Records first released 1967. Adairsville is a city in Bartow County, Georgia.
R. Matteson 2017]
Down in Adairsville- sung by Hedy West, with banjo, recorded 1967
Down in Adairsville I did dwell
A farmer's boy I loved so well,
He courted me my life away
He's with me now and he will not stay.
There is another house in this same town,
My love goes there and sets him down,
He takes another girl upon his knee,
He tells to her what he once told me.
A grief a grief I'll tell you why
Because she has more gold than I
Her gold will rust and her beauty will fade
And she like me will die an old maid.
Must I go bound and he go free
Must I love a boy who don't love me
Oh no, oh no that'll never be,
Till oranges grow on an apple tree.
Go dig my grave both wide and deep.
Put a marble slab at my head and feet
And on my breast they'll come a dove
To show the world that I died for love.