Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl- Hoskins (KY) 1937
[From Kentucky Alan Lomax Recordings, 1937-1942, https://archive.org/details/afc1937001_1516A1. First stanza composite with Shady Grove.
R. Matteson 2018]
Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl- Theophilus G. Hoskins of Leslie (Hyden, KY) on 10-14, 1937.
Fly around my blue-eyed girl,
Fly around I say,
Fly around my blue-eyed girl,
I'm goin' away to stay.
Ev'ry time I pass that road
Looks so dark and hazy
Ev'ry time I pass that road
I stop and see my baby.
When you see that blue-eyed girl,
Something could you tell 'er
But[1] to spend some time with me
And not some other feller.
Blue-eyed girl's gone back on me,
Black-eyed girl won't marry
Before I'd have a cross-eyed gal,
Single will I tarry[2].
When you see that blue-eyed girl,
Tell her if you'd please
When she goes to milk the cows,
To roll up her dirty sleeves.
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1. Unclear
2. unclear (first part of the line)- see Rufus Crisp