Scottish Merchant's Daughter- Daley (OK) c.1935
[Date by Keefer; from Ethel & Chauncey Moore's "Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest," Univ. of Okla, Bk (1964), p217/#102 [1930s]. This is another version with Wakefield's 1881 stanzas and chorus. It's missing the "Scottish" merchant stanza -- yet it's in the title!!!
R. Matteson 2017]
Scottish Merchant's Daughter- sung by Susie Evans Daley, of Tulsa (OK) c.1935.
When we're walking in the garden,
Plucking flowers all wet with dew,
Tell me, would it be offending,
If I walked and talked with you?
CHORUS No sir, No sir, no sir, oh no, no.
Tell me one thing, tell me truly,
Tell me why you treat me so?
Tell me when I ask a question,
Why you always answer, "No!"
CHORUS
When we're walking in the garden,
I should ask you to be mine,
Will you then refuse to answer
Will you then my heart decline?
CHORUS