Quaker's Wooing- Ella Doten (VT) 1933 Flanders B
[Partial transcription Cylinder 67 - Flanders Ballad Collection, 1933. Listen: https://archive.org/details/hhfbc-cyl67/Band+2+Clean.wav The recordings are of poor quality.
R. Matteson 2017]
"Quaker's wooing" performed by Ella Doten of North Calais, VT
1. He) Madam I have come a-courting
Oh dear, oh me,
. . .
Oh dear, oh me.
2. She) If a-courting is your desire[1],
Fal-da rictum do-da-day,
You may sit and court the fire,
Fal- da rictum do-da-day.
3. He) I'll go home and tell my daddy
Oh dear, oh me.
The girl was not supposed to marry,
Oh dear, oh me.
4. . .
1. This stanza not transcribed- from standard Vermont version.