Pretty Little Girl- Mrs. Bair (OH) c. 1931 Eddy A
[My date. Version A, 74. My Pretty Maid from Ballads and songs from Ohio - page 189 by Mary Olive Eddy - 1939. Version A has the second revision opening (standard Seventeen Come Sunday broadsides, c. 1840). Taken from an old MS book and could be considerably older.
R. Matteson 2018]
A. "Pretty Little Girl"- from Mrs Charles Bair, of Paris, Ohio taken from an old MS book.
1. It was on one May morning,
Just as the day was dawning
There I spied a pretty little girl
Just as the sun was rising.
CHORUS: Riffad deldero raffadelda,
Tural lural landy.
2. "Oh, where are you going, my pretty little girl,
Oh, where are you going, my honey?"
She answered me with modesty,
"On an errand for my mamma."
3. “Oh, where do you live, my pretty little girl,
Oh, where do you live, my honey?"
She answered me most modestly,
“In the loom shop with my mamma."
4. “How old are you, my pretty little girl,
How old are you, my honey?"
She answered me with a te he he,
“I'll be sixteen next Sunday."
5. Her shoes were black, her stockings were white,
And her buckles were of silver,
She had a fair and rolling eye,
And her hair curled over her shoulder.
6. “Don't you want a man, my pretty little girl,
Don't you want a man, my honey?"
She answered me most modestly,
"If it weren't for my mamma."
7. If I come by a moonlight night
If I come there, my honey
Will you arise and let me in?"
"So mamma doesn't hear me."