[Recording Champion Record Company in Richmond, Indiana in 1933 by Lonnie Edward Anderson, also known as Red Anderson and Le Roy Anderson; The Red Headed Briar Hopper and his brother "Check" Anderson, The Brier Hopper Brothers.
A brier/briar hopper is a rustic settler of southern Ohio from backwoodsy Kentucky or simply any traveler over the brier bushes found in Southern Appalachia.
Lonnie Edward Anderson, also known as Red Anderson. In the early 1930s he found work singing and playing guitar at a radio station in Dayton Ohio, which soon took him to Covington, KY & WCKY. He left WCKY in the fall of 1934, but not before recording 18 songs for the Champion Record Company in Richmond, IN. It was there he met Gene Autry. He recorded under several names; Red Anderson, Red & son Raymond(Anderson's son), The Red Headed Briar Hopper, and the Briarhopper Brothers when he would sing with his younger brother "Check". [ref. grandson's video on youtube]
This is a cover of the Carter Family version.
R. Matteson 2017]
"Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy." Sung by The Brier Hopper Brothers dated July 12, 1933; Le Roy Anderson (The Red Headed Brier Hopper) with his brother Check. This is a cover song of the Carter Family's 1929 recording.
[Instrumental break]
'Tis true the ring that has no end
It's hard to find a faithful friend
And when you find one just and true
Change not the old one for the new.
CHORUS: Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me
Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me
Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me
That I may ever happy be.
Must I go bound and him go free
Or I love that boy that don't love me
Or must I act the childish part
And love that boy that broke my heart.
CHORUS
Last night my lover promised me
To take me 'cross the deep blue sea
And now he's gone and left me alone
An orphan girl without a home.
CHORUS
Oh, dig my grave both wide and deep
Place marble at my head and feet
And on my breast a snow-white dove
To show to the world I died for love.
CHORUS