Bluegrass Messengers

Quaker Song- Lawson Grey (VA) 1918 Sharp C

[From Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/9/3100)

R. Mastteson 2017]

THE QUAKER SONG. Sung by Mrs. Lawson Grey at Montvale, Bedford Co., Va., on June 6th, 1918.

Madam, I have come a-courting,
O dear me,
Madam, I have some discretion,
O dear me.

O if you will it's my desire,
O de ling dum diddle um day,
You can sit and court the fire,
O de ling dum diddle um day.

 Madam, I have lost my loving brother,
Lost him where^[1] I can't discover.
O if you've lost your loving brother,
Lost the one and gained another.

She called her dogs, she set them on me.
Good Lord, how they did run me.
Run, O run, you little Quaker,
If they catch you, how they'll shake you.

1. has "her who"