Pretty Polly- Sam Rathbone (NC) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. Two opening stanzas with music from Sharp MS.
Sharp's Diary: Then on the way back we found old Sam Rathbone cutting shingles. He is a regular Irishman — though half English by birth — and used to know any number of songs but has recently given them up for sacred ones! However he sang us 3 or 4 and then we walked all the way home, singing — by request — a song at Mrs Young’s on the way.
R. Matteson 2016]
[Pretty Polly] Sung by Sam Rathbone of Burnsville N. Carolina on 1 Oct., 1918.
Pretty Polly, pretty Polly, would you think it unkind,
For me to sit by you and tell you my mind.
My mind is to marry and never to part,
For the first time I saw you, you won[1] my heart.
1. usually "wounded"