Quaker's Wooing- Anon (IN) 1936 Brewster JAF
[From "Game-Songs from Southern Indiana" by Paul Brewster in The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 49, No. 193 (Jul. - Sep., 1936), pp. 243-262.
R. Matteson 2017]
4a. THE QUAKER'S WOOING
I am an old and honest Quaker,
Mo-der-me!
And I have lost my own true lover,
Mo-der-me!
O I have a ring and I have money,
Ho-dum-a-rinktum-te-i-day!
To give to the girl that I call my honey,
Ho-dum-a-rinktum-te-i-day!
I have a ring worth forty shillings,
Mo-der-me!
And you can wear it if you're willing,
Mo-der-me!
O none of your rings and none of your money,
Ho-dum-a-rinktum-te-i-day!
It never shall be said that you called me honey,
Ho-dum-a-rinktum-te-i-day!