Blue-Eyed Boy: Mrs Vaughan (IN) 1935 Brewster
[From Paul Brewster: Ballads and Songs of Indiana, 1940. His notes follow.
R. Matteson 2017]
85 THE BLUE-EYED BOY
Only one text of this song has been recovered. Cf. Pound, No. 102 ("My Blue-Eyed Boy").
Contributed by Miss Sylvia Vaughan, of Oakland City, Indiana. Gibson County. Obtained from her mother, Mrs. Hiram Vaughan. March 28, 1935.
1. Remember well and bear in mind
A true good friend is hard to find,
But if you find one good and true
Change not the old one for the new.
2. Must I go bound and him go free;
Must I love one that don't love me;
Must I turn back to my childhood part,
And marry the one that broke my heart?
3. Then bring me back my blue-eyed boy;
O bring, O bring him back to me!
O bring me back the one I love,
And 0 so happy I will be!
4. I met my true-love in the park;
1 met him with a broken heart,
Saying, "Be my true-love; I'm going away,
In some distant land to stay."
5. If I had wings like a snowy white dove,
I'd fly, I'd fly so very far away;
And then to the arms of the one I love,
And O so happy I would be!