The Farmer's Curst Wife- Gibbs (NC) 1924 Chappell
[From: Folk-Songs of Roanoke and the Abermerle. This fragment should more properly be titled "Along Came A Little Devil."]
20. The Farmer's Curst Wife
(D.B. Gibbs, Columbia, N.C., 1924)
Along came a little devil,
A-peeping over the wall,
Says, Carry her back, daddy,
Or she will kill us all.
Then he picked her all up
On the hump of his back,
And like an old fool
Went lugging her back.