Wake up- Ethel Edwards (GA) 1914 Rawn/Campbell MS
[My shortened title, the correct title being: "Wake Up, Wake Up, You Saucy Sleeper." From: Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at VWML) (CJS1/11/73.
Isabel Rawn moved from North Carolina to teach in Georgia at the Mount Berry School by 1914. She supplied Campbell and Sharp a number of MSS with music (this one has no music and could not be used), several of which were published in EFSSA without crediting Rawn (see any version from Georgia).
I've edited this somewhat, providing the missing words, correct stanza breaks and line lengths; saucy=drowsy. The rare last stanza is found only in several other versions (see: Mary Lomax from Georgia- second stanza).
R. Matteson 2016]
Wake Up Wake Up You Saucy Sleeper- sung by Ethel Edwards of Georgia during the year 1914. Collected by Isabel Rawn.
Wake up, wake up, you saucy sleeper
Wake up, wake up, for it is almost day
Come peep your head out at the window,
And see what your true love has to say.
"Go then, go then and tell your mother,
If you my loving bride will be."
"Oh no, I cannot tell my mother
And let her know you are near.
So turn away and court[1] another,
And it will be the last I will trouble [you]."
[Go] then, go then, my love and ask your father,
If you my loving bride will be."
"Oh no, I cannot tell my father,
For on his velvet cloak he rest[2]
All in his hand he holds a weapon[3],
To slay the man that I love best."
"Oh don't you see the clouds a-risin'[4]
To hide us from the setting sun?"
"Oh yes I see the clouds a-risin'
To hide us from the setting sun,"
"Oh won't you be glad when we are blest with [the] pleasure,
And we both become as one?"
1. originally "cast"
2. originally "read"
3. originally "weepin"
4. This rare stanza is found in other Georgia versions