Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy- Tanner/Puckett (GA) 1929
[On the April 12, 1929 recording Columbia 15577-D.
R. Matteson 2017]
Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy- sung by Arthur Tanner, banjo and Riley Puckett, guitar, 4-29-1929
CHORUS: Bring me back my blue-eyed boy,
Bring oh bring him back to me,
Bring me back my blue-eyed boy,
And oh how happy I will be.
Must I go bound and you go free?
Must I go bound and you go free?
No, no, no, that never shall be
That love like that shall conquer me.
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Captain, captain tell me true,
Does your Willie sail with you,
No, no, no, he does not sail with me
He done drowned in the deep blue sea.
Chorus
Captain, captain get me a boat,
Down the river I will float,
Every ship that I pass by,
I think I hear sweet Willie cry.
Chorus
On the railroad banks I stand,
On the railroad banks I stand
On the railroad banks I stand
A-shooting at another man.
Chorus