Quaker's Courtship- Wilsons (KY) 1942 Lomax REC
[From Lomax, The Kentucky Recordings, Internet Archive, a second recording was made with just Mrs. Addina Palmore Wilson singing.
R. Matteson 2017]
The Quaker's Courtship (dulcimer acc.) sung by Addina Palmore Wilson and Effie Wilson of Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky, recorded by Lomax on August 4, 1942; learned from a young girl in Allentown.
1. He, slowly) Hey young miss may I come a-courting
Hey dee, hi ho hum,
It's for pleasure, not for sporting
Hey dee hi ho hum.
2. She, fast) Go back and do not tarry
Fal de linctum daddle day
For I do not want to marry
Fal de linctum daddle day.
3. He, slowly) I've a ring cost forty shillings
Hey dee hi ho hum;
Thou canst wear it if thou art willing
Hey dee hi ho hum.
4. She, fast) I don't want your ring or money
Fal de linctum daddle day
Want some young man to call me honey
Fal de linctum daddle day.
5. He, slowly) I'm not old, just three times twenty,
Hey dee hi ho hum;
Thou canst live in ease and plenty,
Hey dee hi ho hum.
6. She fast) You go back and tell your daddy,
Fal de linctum daddle day,
That you could not get me ready,
Fal de linctum daddle day.