Daddy Addy Doodum- Laura Britton (VT) 1945 Flanders
[From D41A - archival cassette dub, a digitized archival cassette in the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives. Listen: https://archive.org/details/HHFBC_tapes_D41A (34:26) Track 13, where she sing a version of "Madam" titled, "Daddy Addy Doodum."
R. Matteson 2017]
Daddy Addy Doodum- from a voice performance by Laura Britton at Putney, Vermont dated 01-08-1945. Learned from her mother, Jenny Sleeper, who was born in Chelsea, Vermont.
Madam, I have come a-courting,
If your favor I do gain,
If you'll freely entertain,
Perhaps I may come again.
CHORUS: Daddy addy doodum
Doodum doodum,
Daddy addy doodum
Doodum day.
Madam I have rings of silver,
Madam I have house and land,
Madam I have worlds of treasure,
All may be at your command.
CHORUS
What care I for rings of silver?
What care I for house and land?
What care I for worlds of treasure?
I will and shall have a handsome man.
CHORUS
Handsome men I do desire,
Handsome man I do adore,
Handsome man I'm bound to marry,
Be he rich or be he poor.
CHORUS
[Blue it] is a very fine color[1],
When it gets the second dip,
Like young men when they first go courting,
Often times they get the slip.
CHORUS
The ripest apple, soonest rotten,
Hottest love is soonest cold,
Young men's dreams are soon forgotten
Pray young miss don't be so bold.
CHORUS
1. The first words of this line are unclear