Butcher Boy- Ollie Gilbert (AR) 1969 Hunter E
[From Max Hunter Collection; Cat. #0797 (MFH #37).
Listen: https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=0797
R. Matteson 2017]
Butcher Boy- As sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on June 25, 1969
VERSE 1
In London city, where I did dwell
A butcher boy I loved so well
Courted me, my life away
An' with me now he will not stay
VERSE 2
There lives a girl in that same town
Where he goes there an' hangs around
He takes this girl upon his knee
And he tells to her, that he don't love me.
VERSE 3
If you want'a know why I'll tell you why
Because she has more gold than I
Her gold may rust an' silver fly
She'll see th day she's poor as I
VERSE 4
She went upstairs to make her bed
Nothing to her Mother, she said
She took a chair an' set right down
With pen an' ink she wrote it down.
VERSE 5
Father come home the door he broke
He found her hangin' by a rope
He took his knife an' cut 'er down
On 'er bosom these words he found
VERSE 6
Go dig my grave both wide an' deep
Place a marble stone at my head an' feet
And on my breast, place a snowy white dove
To show to the world that I died for love.