Loving Henry- Howard (KY) 1917 Sharp MS
[My title. From Bronson 15, TTCB, taken from Sharp's MS 3788/2793.
R. Matteson 2014]
[Loving Henry] - Sung by Miss Carrie Howard, at Pineville, Ky., June 3, 1917.
1. Come in, come in, loving Henry
And stay all night with he.
Your bed shall be made of bright yellow gold
And the doors shall be locked on thee.
2. I can't come in, pretty Molly, said he.
Nor stay all night with you,
For the girl which I left in the Arksand land
Shall think I'm coming home.
3. She leaned her breast up against a fence
And took one sweet or two,
And the little penknife which she held in her hand,
She pierced it through and through.
4. She took him by one lily-white hand
The other by the feet,
She carried him off to some broad river side
And cast him in the deep.
5. Lay there, lay there, loving Henry, said she,
Till the flesh washed from the bone,
And the girl which you left in Arksand land
Shall think you're long coming home.
6. Fly down, fly down, little dove, said she,
And rest upon my knee.
Your cage shall be made of bright yellow gold
And hung in the willow tree.
7. I can't a-fly down, pretty Molly, said he,
Nor sit upon your knee,
For you have killed your own true love,
I'm afraid you might kill me.