Blue-Eyed Boy: Nathan Hicks (NC) 1933 Matteson/Henry
[From Beech mountain Folk-Songs and Ballads by Maurice Matteson and Mellinger Henry pub. G. Schirmer, 1936, New York. This version is standard and includes a stanza of Butcher Boy.
R. Matteson 2017]
THE BLUE-EYED BOY, sung by Nathan Hicks August, 1933.
Must I go bound while he goes free?
Must I love a boy that don't love me?
Must I then act the childish part,
And love a boy till he breaks my heart?
Refrain: Go, bring me back my blue-eyed boy;
Go, bring my darling back to me;
Go, bring me back my blue-eyed boy
And happy ever I will be.
No, I'll not go bound while he goes free;
No, I'll not love a boy that don't love me;
No, I'll not act the childish part,
And love a boy till he breaks my heart.
ReJrain
Last night my true love told me that
He'd take me across the deep blue sea,
But now he's gone and left me alone-
A poor orphan girl without a home.
Refrain
Right here in this little town
My true love goes and he sits down,
He takes other girls upon his knee
And tells them things he won't tell me.
Refrain
My true love is like a little bird
That flies from tree to tree,
And while he's with some other girl,
He very seldom thinks of me.
Refrain