The Cambric Shirt- Daley (OK) 1950 Moores
[From Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, Moores; 1964.
R. Matteson 2014]
A. The Cambric Shirt, sung by Mrs. Susie Evans Daley of Tulsa.
"As you go into yonders town,
Rosemary and I !
The fairest girl you chance to meet,
Tell her she will be a true lover of mine."
"Tell him to plant me an acre of land,
Rosemary and I !
Between the salt water and the sand,
And he will be a true lover of mine."
"Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Rosemary and I !
Without a stitch or a seam,
And she shall be a true lover of mine."
"Tell him to plow it with a hunter's horn,
Rosemary and I !
And sew the ground with pepper corn,
And he will be a true lover of mine."
"Tell her to wash it in a dry well,
Rosemary and I!
Where water never was since Adam was born,
And she shall be a true lover of mine."
"Tell him to stack it in a mouse hole,
Rosemary and I !
And thresh it with his old shoe sole,
And he shall be a true lover of mine."
"When my love has finished his work,
Rosemary and I !
Tell him to come for his cambric shirt,
And he shall be a true lover of mine."