Kind Sir- Texas Gladden (VA) 1941 Lomax REC
[From Library of Congress/https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.14886/ Lomax, Alan -- 1915-2002 (recordist): Lyttleton, Elizabeth (recordist): Gladden, Texas (singer)
See also cover version: Short Hints Towards a Scheme for Uniting the Northern Colonies, released April 20, 2014. Vocals by Jen O'Connor.
R. Matteson 2017]
Kind Sir, I see you've come again- sung by Texas Gladden of Salem, Virginia 1941. Recorded by Alan Lomax
Kind sir, I see you've come again
Pray tell me what it's for.
I thought I told you on yonder hill
You need not come anymore.
Kind miss, I have a very fine house
And also a very fine yard
And it should be at your command
If you would be my bride.
Kind sir, I know you have a very fine house
And also a very fine yard
But who would stay with me every night
While you was playing your cards?
Kind miss, I have a very fine horse
That stands in yonder barn
And it should be at your command
Whenever you wish to ride.
Kind sir, I know you have a very fine horse
That stands in yonder barn
I'm afraid his master would get drunk
And sell his horse for rum.
Kind miss, you are a hard old case
And most too hard to please
Some cold night when we're alone
I hope to the lord you'll see
It ain't so bad being with me.
I know I am a hard old case
But not too hard for you
It took four years and seventeen days
Of loving me to prove
That I could marry a drunkard like you.