The Butcher's Boy- anon (NC) c1930 Lunsford C
[No informant, location or date; estimated from age, location of MSS in collection. From: Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection, Box 69, Folder B; Southern Appalachian Archives, Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies, Mars Hill University; Identifier mh00020. Several words in brackets were supplied by a transcriber at the collection. Title appears "No 6 The Butcher's Boy."
R. Matteson 2017]
The Butcher's Boy.
1. In London City where I did dwell,
a butcher's boy I loved so well.
He courted me my life away,
and with me then he would not stay.
2. There is a strange house in this town
where he goes up and sits right down,
he takes another girl on his knee
and tells her things that he won't tell me.
3. I'll have to grieve I'll tell you [why]
because she has more gold than I,
[Her] gold will melt and silver fly
In [time] of need to be as poor as I.
4. I went up stairs to go to bed,
and nothing to my mother said.
My mother she did seem to say
Oh! what is the matter my daughter dear.
5. Must I go bound while he goes free
Must I love a boy that don't love me
Alas! Alas! It will never be
till oranges grow on apple trees.