The Lovers' Quarrel- (MO) 1959 Cansler REC
[From the recording Missouri Folk Songs by Loman D. Cansler on Smithsonian Folkways PH5324.
R. Matteson 2017]
The Lovers' Quarrel --Collected by Cansler in Dallas County from a man known since childhood. Adapted and arranged by Loman D. Cansler; recorded in 1959.
Madam I have a very fine farm
A hundred acres wide,
I t will be at your command
If you will be my bride, bride,
If you will be my bride.
Sir, I know you've a very fine farm
A hundred acres wide,
But you may marry some other girl
And I'll not be your bride, bride,
And I'll not be your bride.
Madam I have a very fine house
Sixteen stories high,
And every room within that house
Is lined with punkin pie, pie,
Is lined with punkin pie.
Sir I know you've a very fine house
Also a marble yard,
But who would stay with me at night
When you were playing cards, cards,
When you were playing cards.
Madam it's a game I never play
I do not think. it right,
If you'll consent to marry me
I'll stay with you at night, night,
I'll stay with you at night.
Sir I know just what that's for
It's just to win me in,
If I were to marry you
You'd drink. and gamble again, again,
You'd drink. and gamble again.
Madam, I have a very fine horse
That stands in yonders stall,
You'd go there and you'd get drunk.
And off that horse you'd fall, fall,
And off that horse you'd fall.
Madam, you're a hateful girl
And somewhat hard to please,
When you get old and shiver with cold
I really hope you'll freeze, freeze,
I really hope you'll freeze.
Sir I know I'm a hateful girl
And somewbat hard to please,
When I get old and shiver with cold
I'll have no drunkard to please, please,
I'll have no drunkard to please.
You can keep your pretty blue eyes
And I will keep my land
You may keep your red rosy cheeks
And marry some other man, man,
And marry some other man.
Sir I'll keep my pretty blue eyes
And you can keep your land,
I will keep my red rosy cheeks
And marry no drinking man, man,
And marry no drinking man.