Fare You Well My Blue-Eyed Girl- Begley (KY) 1937
[From Kentucky Alan Lomax Recordings, 1937-1942, https://archive.org/details/afc1937001_1533B. Incomplete transcription, much of it is hard to hear.
R. Matteson 2018]
Fare You Well, My Blue-Eyed Girl- sung by Justus Begley of Perry (Hazard County), Kentucky on 10-17, 1937.
[fast banjo]
1. Fare-you-well, my blue-eyed girl,
Fare-you-well my daisy;
Fare-you-well, my blue-eyed girl,
You almost drive me crazy.
2. Up and down the slippery side
And far across the barn
[ ]
And I don't mean no harm
3. I have a big ol' house,
It's sixteen stories high
[ ]
And hope she'll never die
4. I asked that girl to marry me
And this is what she said,
Said she wouldn't marry me
If all the men was dead.
5. Now I went down to see my blue eyes
She lives all in the town
She through her arms around my neck,
She made me take it down
Oh when she saw me coming boys,
She hung her head and cried,
[]
And where will it hide
up on the mountain
sweet Liza Jane
My blue-eyed Jane's a pretty little girl
I'll tell you how I knows,
Every time she goes somewhere
She brings a bag of clothes.
Possum in the simmons tree
Racoon on the ground
Racoon say you son-of-a-gun,
Through some simmons down.
Racoon has a bushy tail,
Possum's tail is bare,
{ ]
a little bunch of hair.
Court miss Liza Jane