My Blue-Eyed Boy: Mrs. Elizabeth Brayman (AR) 1900 Randolph A
[I've kept Randolph's master title although the Blue-Eyed Boy stanza is missing. From Randolph, vol. IV, "Ozark Folksongs – Religious Songs and Other Items, University of Missouri, 1948, pp 260-262.
R. Matteson 2017]
A. "My Blue-Eyed Boy." Sung by Mrs. Elizabeth Brayman, Springfield, Mo., July 5, 1933. Mrs. Brayman learned the song from her sister at Eureka Springs, Ark., about 1900.
It's like a ring that has no end,
It's hard to find a constant friend,
But when you find one good and true,
Don't nev-er change 'em for the new.
Shall I go bound, shall I go free?
Shall I love a man that don't love me?
Or shall I act a childish part
An' love the man that broke my heart?
Last night my true love promised me
To take me o'er the deep blue sea,
An' now he's left me all alone,
A orphan girl without no home.
Go dig my grave both wide an' deep,
Put margery stones at my head an' feet,
An' on my breast a snow-white dove,
To show the world I died for love.