George Collins- Obray Ramsey (NC) 1961 REC
[From the recording: Obray Ramsey Sings Folksongs From The Three Laurels; Prestige International – INT 13020; 1961.
R. Matteson 2015]
George Collins- Obray Ramsey 1961, NC
[banjo]
George Collins rode home one cold winter night
George Collins rode home so fine.
George Collins rode home one cold winter night
And taken sick and died.
His sweetheart she heard that her lover was dead,
She laid her silks aside,
She bent her head on her lily-white knees,
She wept, she mourned, she cried.
[banjo]
Mary, oh Mary get up from there
Why are you crying so?
There's many a young man a-standing around
For to see you weep and mourn.
Mother, oh mother I know there are t'other
Young men for to see me weep
But I've followed George Collins all through his life
And I'll follow him to his grave
God pity the dove who mourn for love
That flies from pine to pine
Be as true to your own true love
As I have been for mine
[banjo]