That Blue-Eyed Girl: Fletch Rymer (NC) 1898 Brown A
[From the Brown Collection of NC Folklore, Volume 3 (1952) under No. 286. Fly Around, version A. This composite learned by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in 1898 has the "fly around" chorus and is a version more properly of "Fly Around" although it also has stanzas from "Seventeen."
R. Matteson 2018]
A. 'That Blue-Eyed Girl.' Sung by Fletch Rymer, a banjo-picker, in "The Beats" near the mouth of Newfound Creek in Buncombe county.
1 How old are you, my pretty little miss?
How old are you, my honey?
She looked at me with a smiling look:
'I'll be sixteen next Sunday.'
Chorus: It's fly around, my blue-eyed girl,
It's fly around, my daisy ;
It's fly around, my pretty little miss —
You've done run me crazy.
2 Will you marry me, my pretty little miss?
Will you marry me, my honey?
She looked at me with a smiling look :
'I'll marry you some Sunday.'
3 It's every day and Sunday too,
It seems so dark and hazy,
I'm thinking about my blue-eyed girl —
She's done run me crazy.
4 It's every day and Sunday too
I hang my head and cry ;
I'm thinking about my blue-eyed girl —
Oh, surely I will die!
5 If I had no horse at all,
I'd be found a-crawlin'
Up and down the rocky branch
Looking for my darlin'.