George Collins- Sullivan (CA) 1940 LOC REC
[Library of Congress REcording: AFC 1985/001: AFS 04121a01. From Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Workers Collection (AFC 1985/001). Listen: http://www.loc.gov/resource/afc1985001.afc1985001_st034
R. Matteson 2015]
GEORGE COLLINS - sung by Mrs. Sullivan Shafter, 1940 at Shafter FSA Camp - California.
George Collins rode home one dark stormy night
George Collins rode home so gay
George Collins rode home one dark stormy night
And he lay down and died.
And he lay down and died.
George Collins rode home one dark stormy night,
And he lay down and died.
His sweetheart was at his mother's house
A-sewing silk so fine;
And when she heard George Collins was dead,
She lay down her silk and cried.
She lay down her silk and cried,
And when she heard George Collins was dead,
She lay down her silk and cried.
"Oh daughter don't weep, her father said,
There's other boys than George
I know there's other boys than George
But George has won my heart.
Yes George has won heart
I know there's other boys than George
But George has won my heart.
Open up the coffin throw back the lid
Remove the silk so fine
And let me kiss his cold, cold lips
For [I] know he'll never kiss mine.
I know he'll never kiss mine
Oh And let me kiss his pale cold, cold lips
For [I] know he'll never kiss mine.
She followed him up, she followed him down [1]
She followed him to his grave
And bending down on her bendin' knee
She weeped, she cried, she moaned.
She weeped, she cried, she moaned
And bending down on her bendin' knee
She weeped, she cried, she moaned.
1. this stanza is not on recording and is taken from a LOC transcription