Pretty Polly- Leander Witt (AR) 1958 Parler F

Pretty Polly- Leander Witt (AR) 1958 Parler F

[Fragment from: Ozark Collection; Reel 240, Item 4. Collected by James Ward Lee and Ralph E. Roberts for Mary Celestia Parler. Transcribed by James Ward Lee and Ralph E. Roberts

R. Matteson 2016]



Pretty Polly- Sung by Leander Witt of Hindsville, Arkansas on August 7, 1958

Pretty Polly pretty Polly would you think it unkind,
For me to sit by you and tell you my mind,

My mind is to marry and never to part,
For the first time I saw you, you wounded my heart.