Deep Blue Sea- Marie Washam (AR) 1954 Parler
[From Ozark Folk Song Collection; Reel 190 Item 4. Collected by Mary Jo Davis for M . C. Parler.
Listen: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/OzarkFolkSong/id/3029/rec/22
R. Matteson 2017]
"The Deep Blue Sea" Sung by Marie Washam of DeValls Bluff, Arkansas on June 8, 1954.
It was on one Sunday morning,
About the hour of three,
When my darling started to leave me,
And sail upon the deep blue sea.
He promised to write me a letter,
he promised to write to me,
But I haven't heard from my darling,
Since he sailed upon the deep blue sea.
Oh captain, can you tell me,
Can you tell me where he may be,
Oh yes, my fair young maiden,
He drowned in the deep blue sea.
So farewell friends, and relations,
It's the last you'll see of me,
I'm going to end my troubles,
By drowning in the deep blue sea.