Soldier Boy- Pearl Brewer (AR) 1958 Parler F
[My title. Fragment from Ozark Folksong Collection; Reel 297, Item 4. Collected and transcribed by Mary Celestia Parler
Listen: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/OzarkFolkSong/id/1358/rec/9
R. Matteson 2017]
Soldier Boy- Sung by Mrs. Pearl Brewer Pocahontas, Arkansas on August 28, 1958.
She went upstairs to make her bed,
And not one word to her mother said
But, What a foolish girl am I
To hang myself for a soldier boy.
Her dear old father came running home,
Inquiring where his daughter had gone,
He ran upstairs and the door he broke.
He found his daughter hung by a rope.
He takened his knife and he cut her down,
And in her bosom those lines were found,
What a foolish girl am I
To hang myself for a soldier boy.
Go dig my grave both wide and deep,
Place a marble stone at my head and feet,
And on my breast a snow-white dove
To prove to the world I died for love.