Lizzie Wan- Finlay (KY) 1917 Sharp
[From: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians; 1932. This is the first collected version from 1917.
R. Matteson 2012, 2014]
Lizzie Wan (Fair Lucy)- Benjamin J. Finlay (Manchester, KY) 1917 Sharp w/music
1. Fair Lucy sitting in her father's room,
Lamenting and a-making mourn,
And in steps her brother James:
"O what's Fair Lucy done?"
2 It is time for you to weep,
Lamenting and a-making your mourn.
Here's a babe at my right side,
And it is both mine and yourn.
3 O what will you do when your father comes home?
Dear son, come tell to me.
I'll set my foot into some little ship
And I'll sail plumb over the sea.
4 O what will you do with your house and land?
Dear son, come tell to me.
I'll leave it here, my old, dear mother;
Be kind to my children three.
5 O what will you do with your pretty, little wife?
Dear son, come tell to me.
She can set her foot in another little ship
And follow after me.
6 Back home, back home will you return?
Dear son, come tell to me.
When the sun and moon sets in yon hill,
And I hope that'll never be.