Bluegrass Messengers

My Blue-eyed Boy: Sadie Hewitt (NE) 1905 Pound


[From: American Ballads and Songs- Louise Pound 1922; From a manuscript book of songs from oral transcription in the possession of Sadie Thurman Hewitt of Brokenbow, Nebraska. Transcribed under the date of February, 1905.

R. Matteson 2017]

MY BLUE-EYED BOY - From a manuscript book of songs from oral transcription in the possession of Sadie Thurman Hewitt of Brokenbow, Nebraska. Transcribed under the date of February, 1905.

There is a tree I love to pass,
And it has leaves as green as grass,
But not as green as love is true;
I love but one and that is you.

CHORUS: Bring to me my blue-eyed boy!
Bring, 0 bring him back to me!
Bring to me my blue-eyed boy,
What a happy, happy girl I'd be.

Must I go bound and he go free?
Must I love one that don't love me?
Or must I act a childish part
And love the one that broke my heart?

Go bear, go bear, go bear in mind
That a good true friend is hard to find,
And when you find one good and true
Never change the old one for the new.

Adieu, adieu kind friends, adieu,
I can no longer stay with you.
I'll hang my heart in a willow tree,
And give it to the one that first loved me.