Quaker's Wooing- Mrs. Mullenix (AR) 1941 Randolph C
[My title. From Randolph's "Ozark Folksongs," Vol. 3, version 362C (c.1948). The date can reasonably be c.1896.
R. Mattesopn 2017]
Quaker's Wooing- Sung by Mrs. H. A. Mullenix, Farmington, Ark., Dec. 20, 1941. Apparently about fifty-five years old, Mrs. Mullenix says she learned this song from her father when she was a small child.
Madam, I have come a-courting,
Oh dear, mercy me,
Not for pleasure, not for sporting,
Oh dear, mercy me.
You can sit and court the fire,
Ti di dinktum ti di day,
I will go at my desire,
Ti di dinktum ti di day.
Madam, thou art tall and slender,
Oh dear, mercy me,
And I know thy heart art tender,
Oh dear, mercy me.
You are nothing but a flatterer,
Ti di dinktum ti di day,
And besides you are a Quaker,
Ti di dinktum ti di day.
Here's a ring cost forty shilling,
Oh dear, mercy me,
Thou canst wear it if thou art willing,
Oh dear, mercy me.
What care I for ring or money?
Ti di dinktum ti di day,
I want a man that will call me honey,
Ti di dinktum ti di day.
Madam, I have got to leave thee,
Oh dear, mercy me,
And I know thy heart will grieve thee,
Oh dear, mercy me.
Run right home and tell your mammy,
Ti di dinktum ti di day,
That you could not get me handy,
Ti di dinktum ti di day.