Madam, Mozelle I've Come Courting- H. F. Shaw (NC) c.1932 Brown
[Single stanza from Brown Collection Vol. 3, 1952. Their notes follow.
R. Matteson 2017]
4. Madam, Mozelle I've Come Courting
This is a fragment of that version of the courting dialogue which Barry (JAFL xxiv 341-2) reported from the singing of an Irish-man in Boston, beginning "Madam, I have come a-courting." The first two words represent, one guesses, a misunderstanding of "mademoiselle.''
'Madam Mozelle. I've Come Courting.' Contributed by H. F. Shaw, with the notation that it is from "the eastern part of North Carolina."
Madam Mozelle, I've come courting,
Your kind heart I hope to win;
And, if you will entertain me,
Truly, I will call again.