Madam, I Have A Very Fine Farm- Hoskins (KY) 1937 Lomax
[LOC, Publication date 10-03- 1937 recorded by Alan Lomax. The last two stanzas (very fine horse) are moved to a more natural position.
R. Matteson 2017]
"Madam, I Have A Very Fine Farm" sung by by Theophilus G.Hoskins, from Leslie Co., Hyden, Kentucky.
Madame I have a very fine farm
And it's sixty acres wide
And you can have it at your command
If you will be my bride.
Yes sir, I know you've a very fine farm
And it's sixty acres wide
But who would stay with me at night
While you're off playing cards?
Madam, I never did do such a thing
For I never did think it right
And if you will be my bride, bride, bride,
I won't stay away at night.
Yes sir, I know that's just all talk
And just to take me in
I wonder if you think that I
Would marry a barrel of gin?
Yes sir, I know you've a very fine horse
And he stands in yonder barn
His master knows some very bad habits
And I'm afraid that horse would larn.
Madam, I have a very fine horse,
And a farm fifty acres wide,
Which you may have a your command,
The day you'll be my bride,
The day you'll be my bride.
Madam, you are a very true girl
And very hard to please
When you get old and out in the cold
I hope to God you freeze.
When I get old and out in the cold
I'll have no drunkard to please, please, please,
I'll have no drunkard to please.
Madame I have a very fine horse
And his pace is like a kite
And you can have him at your command
If you will be my bride.