Madam, I Have a Very Fine Field- Blake (VT) 1935 Flanders
[Two stanza fragment. From a digitized archival cassette in the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives. Track 07b : Madam I Have a Very Fine Field - voice performance by A R Blake at White River Jun (Vt.). Dated 1935.
https://archive.org/details/HHFBC_tapes_C07A/C07A+sideB.mp3
R. Matteson 2017]
Madam I Have a Very Fine Field - voice performance by A R Blake at White River Jun (Vt.). Dated 1935.
Madam, I have a very fine field,
Full sixty acres wide[1],
And all shall be at your command,
If you will be my bride, bride,
If you will be my bride.
I know you have a very fine field,
Full sixty acres wide[1],
If you were in, I'd turn you out,
For you know a hog will root, root,
For you know a hog will root.
1. I put down a standard line-- not sure of this line, it sounds: With a . . . besides