Quaker's Wooing- Alice Gilmore (MA) 1945 Flanders E
[From D51B - archival cassette dub, Track 09. This is a digitized archival cassette in the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives.
R. Matteson 2017]
Quaker's Wooing - voice performance by Alice Clark Gilmore at Westboro (Ma.), dated 03-16-1945. This version was "sung in the Aunt Polly Bassett singing school."
1. All) Did you ever hear of the Christian lady?
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day
That was courted by a Quaker?
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day.
2. He- slowly) Madam, I have come a-courting
Oh dear, oh me
And I'll have thee if thou art willing,
Oh dear, oh me.
3. She- faster) I don't like your Quaker notions,
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day
I'm a Presbyterian lady,
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day.
4. He- slowly) I've a ring worth forty dollars,
Oh dear, oh me,
That I'll give thee if thou art willing
Oh dear, oh me.
5. She- faster) I'll have none of your rings or money
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day
I'm for the man that'll call me honey
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day
6. He- slowly) And I'll go from Quaker to Presbyterian,
Oh dear, oh me,
And I'll become one of your religion,
Oh dear, oh me.
7. She faster) Well, we might as well get married,
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day
And I'll have thee for I am willing,
Fie-dil-a-ding-dum, die-dum-day