My Heneree- Fitzgerald (VA) 1936 Wilkinson MS
[My title. From Bronson No. 26, TTCB, 1962, as taken from Wilkinson's MS, 1933-36 p. 47. Lloyd may be kin to the Fitzgerald that Sharp collected from in 1918, Version I.
R. Matteson 2014]
MY HENEREE- As sung by Lloyd Fitzgerald, Waynesboro, VA, January 9, 1936.
Get down, get down, my Heneree,
And stay all night with me;
For the best of lodgings that I can give,
I'll give it all to thee.
I won't get down, nor I shan't get down,
And stay all night with thee;
For I've seen you murder your own true-lover,
Perhaps you would murder me.