US & Canada Versions 7F. My Blue-Eyed Boy (Bring Me Back My Blue-Eyed Boy) Roud 4308, Roud 60, Roud 18831
The Carter Family, whose 1929 record popularized the song in the US
[In her 1915 article, Songs and Ballads of the Southern Mountains[1], Olive Dame Campbell said:
When I first began my collecting, seven years ago, this variety of material greatly puzzled me, but gradually I came to differentiate sections, singers, and songs. I found that the more accessible mountain sections rarely furnish good ballad material. Such semi-modern songs as My Blue-eyed Boy, and I Once Did Love with Fond Affection, are more or less commonly sung; but where books are easily obtained and life begins to become complex, the older ballads rapidly disappear.
The semi-modern song, My Blue-Eyed Boy, is of British origin and perhaps older than Campbell imagined. Still, she is right it's not one of the older ballads. Instead, Blue-Eyed Boy is a love song constructed by floating stanzas of mostly British origin with the British "Bring me back" chorus. One of the stanzas was independently printed in a number of US publications in the early 1900s:
Remember well and bear in mind
That a true friend is hard to find,
But when you find one good and true
Don't change the old one for the new.
[Primitive Monitor and Church Advocate, Volume 22 by Robert Walder Thompson; 1907, Iowa]
The Blue-Eyed Boy song and "Don't change the old one for the new" stanza were popular in the US in late 1890s and the early 1900s. This standard chorus is taken from a version collected in Tennessee by the McDowells probably in the late 1800s and published in 1947[2]:
Oh, bring me back my blue-eyed boy,
Oh, bring him back to me;
If I could have the same one I love
How happy I should be!
This chorus is the same in the UK except it's: "Give me back the one I love." The UK versions have two openings; 1) "My love he is a sailor boy/ He sails across the deep blue sea," or 2) "As I passed by a willow tree/ A leaf blew down and followed me." Some other stanzas ("Don't change the old" and "My love is like a little bird") are cognate here and abroad but the US has a large variety of additional floating stanzas-- most are from Died for Love extended family.
The McDowell's text also has this floating stanza that was used by Woody Guthrie for his song "Hard, Ain't It hard";
'Tis hard to love and not be loved
'Tis hard to love in vain;
'Tis hard to love another's love,
And not be loved again.
One of the standard added stanzas in the US is "Must I Go Bound" a stanza found in a number of old broadsides[3]. Here's the stanza as sung by Riley Puckett in 1929[4]:
Must I go bound and you go free?
Must I go bound and you go free?
No, no, no, that never shall be
That love like that shall conquer me.
The stanza which dates to the 1600s (See: 7O. Must I Go Bound? Roud 18829) usually appears similarly to the version from Unfortunate Swain circa 1750:
Must I be bound, must she be free,
Must I love one that loves not me;
If I should act such a childish part
To love a Girl that will break my heart[5].
In addition to other stanzas from "Butcher Boy," stanzas of "Blue Eyed Boy" have been borrowed from "Adieu" part of the chorus of "Tavern in this Town," another Died for Love song. Other floating stanzas from Child 76 ("Who's going to shoe those pretty little foot") have also been found as added stanzas of "Blue Eyed Boy." The 1971 version from Oklahoma recorded by Max Hunter begins with the Child 76 verses. Both the "Adieu/Radoo" stanza and the end stanzas of Child 76 "Lass of Roch Royal," just the "Who will shoe my pretty little feet" parts, were found in a version published in Traditional Ballads of Virginia as an appendix of Child 76 "Lass of Roch Royal." Here's what Davis says in TBVa[6]:
"In other variants of the same combination song (see below)- this "Adieu" stanza appears after the "shoe my foot" stanzas or - and more generally- as a chorus."
The Adieu stanza as a chorus was also collected by Missouri (see Belden) with the Blue-Eyed Boy stanza. Although the following version does not have the "Blue-Eyed Boy" stanza, it has been included as a version[7].
[Adieu] collected by Mr. John Stone. Sung by Mrs. Nathaniel Stone, of Culpeper, Va. Culpeper County Nov. 15, 1916. With music.
1. "Adieu, kind friend, adieu, adieu,
I cannot linger long with you;
I'll bid farewell to all my fears
While I am in a foreign land.
I'll bid farewell to all my fears
While I am in a foreign land."
2 "Must I go bond and you go free?
Must I go bond and you go free?
O, must I act the foolie's part
And die for a man that would break my heart?
O, must I act the foolie's part
And die for a man that would break my heart?"
"O, who will shoe those pretty little feet?
O, who will glove those lily-white hands?
O, who will kiss those ruby lips,
While I am in a foreign land?
O, who will kiss those ruby lips
While I am in a foreign land?"
"My father will shoe my pretty little feet;
My brother will glove my lily-white hands;
My mother'll kiss my ruby lips,
When you are in a foreign land.
My mother'll kiss my ruby lips
When you are in a foreign land."
Only the first two lines of Adieu remain unchanged in the version collected by Stone above. The Adieu stanza has been associated with the creole folk song, "Radoo, Radoo, Radoo." Irish writer Justin McCarthy heard "Radoo" about 1869 during his tour of the Southern US and included it in his fictional 1886 book, "The Right Honourable" co-authored with Australian writer Rosa Campbell Praed. They also includes O'Connor's sheet music of "Radoo" and call it "a genuine plantation song."
The various associations have with Adieu and the floating stanzas of Child 76 have produced a number of hybrid versions-- most of which still are related to fundamental stanzas found in Britain.
Blue Eyed boy has also borrowed from 7A. Sailor Boy. The following, "Captain, captain" stanza was published in "The Alabama Folk Lyric: A Study in Origins and Media of Dissemination" by Ray Broadus Browne, 1979.
"Go Bring Me Back the One I Love" sung by Mrs R. A. Dunham, Fairhope, Baldwin County, 1953.
Oh Captain, Captain tell me true,
Does my true lover sail with you?"
"No, he does not sail with me,
He's with the mermaids in the sea."
Bring back the one I love,
Oh, bring, oh bring him back to me.
They say he loves another now,
Oh, he's not keeping his vows.
The 1929 recording "Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy" by Skillet Lickers, Arthur Tanner and Riley Puckett of Atlanta also had two stanzas of 7A, "Sailor Boy" mixed in.
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The standard version found in the US was established by early country recordings of the 1920s and 30s. The seminal recording is the Carter Family's "Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy To Me" recorded on February 12, 1929. Even though Arthur Tanner and Riley Puckett of Georgia recorded a different version of the song two months later, their Columbia recording had little effect on subsequent recordings. Other recordings in the mid-1930s by Asa Martin, Le Roy Anderson (Red-Headed Brierhopper), and Karl Davis closely copy the Carter's version which included a stanza from Died for Love as the ending:
"Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me." Sung by The Carter Family dated 2-12-1929
[Instrumental break, Maybelle]
'Tis true the ring that has no end
It's hard to find a faithful friend
And when you find one just and true
Change not the old one for the new.
CHORUS: Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me
Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me
Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me
That I may ever happy be.
Must I go bound and him go free
Must I love a boy that don't love me
Or must I act the childish part
And love that boy that broke my heart.
CHORUS [Instrumental break]
Last night my lover promised me
To take me across the deep blue sea
And now he's gone and left me alone
An orphan girl without a home.
CHORUS
Oh, dig my grave both wide and deep
Place marble at my head and feet
And on my breast a snow white dove
To show to the world I died for love.
CHORUS [Instrumental break]
The two Carter Family's recordings[8] have been covered by a number of different County/Bluegrass artists including Karl Davis (1936), Aunt Idy Harper, Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton, Lily Mae Ledford, Red Anderson (1933- Brier Hopper Brothers) and Blue Sky Boys. The song entered tradition by the 1930s as it was passed around on various radio stations (two are Covington, Kentucky's WCKY and Cincinnati radio station WLW). Several generations later it is now played by a new country, bluegrass and old-time singers/groups including Foghorn Stringband, Truffle Valley Boys and others. As in the transmission of a traditional song, minor changes have been made in some versions: "ring" (It's true the ring) has become "rainbow" or "rain" and "childish" has become "girlie's." Any version collected after the 1930s should be compared to the Carter's version to see if it's a cover.
A good example is "Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me" as sung by A'nt Idy Harper on the Renfro Valley Barn Dance originating from Renfro Valley, Kentucky over Cincinnati radio station WLW on April 26, 1941. An't Idy, Karl Davis and Lily Mae Ledford were all Renfro Valley singers for John Lair who sang Blue-Eyed Boy. Here's A'nt Idy's version:
"Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me." [sung by A'nt Idy (Lilly Margaret)]
[Instrumental intro]
'Tis true like a ring that has no end
It's hard to find a faithful friend
And when you find one good and true
Change not the old one fer the new.
CHORUS: Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me,
Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me,
Bring back my blue-eyed boy to me,
That I may ever happy be.
Last night my lover promised me,
He'd take me 'cross the deep blue sea,
And now he's gone and left me alone
An orphan girl without a home.
CHORUS
Must I go bound and him go free
Must I love a boy that don't love me
Or must I play the girlie's part
And love the boy that broke my heart.
CHORUS
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The version collected in Ontario by Edith Fowke from LaRena LeBarr Clark that was passed down from her grandparents who were of English, Irish, French, and Pennsylvania Dutch stock, shows a closer affinity to the British versions.
Go and Bring Me Back the Boy I Love- as sung by LaRena Clark[9], circa 1960, learned probably in the early 1930s.
1. Go and bring me back the boy I love,
Go and bring me back to me,
Sure if I had the one I love,
What a happy pair we'd be.
2. Oh, my love is like a little bird
He flies from tree to tree,
And when he's with some other girl
He thinks no more of me
3. Oh, my love is like a lozenger:
He is small but oh how sweet!
And if I had a crown of gold,
I would plant it at his feet.
4. Oh, how hard it is to sigh and weep
Oh, how hard it is to see
Some other girl sit on his knee
In the place where I ought to be.
5. Go and bring me back the boy I love,
Go and bring me back to me,
Sure if I had the one I love,
What a happy pair we'd be.
Fowke remarked that she had not heard some of Clark's stanzas. The Chorus and stanzas 2 and 3 are obviously British and 2 is found in America. Stanza three is important as a new stanza associated with the Blue-Eyed Boy-- there are at least two recordings in the US with that title. Stanza 4 is obviously derived from Died for Love and is common in UK and in the US/Canadian versions of Butcher Boy.
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The known history of Blue Eyed Boy in North America dates back to the late 1800s. There's a Wehman Brothers broadside in the Kenneth S. Goldstein Broadside Collection which I have not seen which dates the ballad to the 1880s. The tradition is clearly much older. Since Olive Dame Campbell called it a semi-modern song in 1915 I'd guestimate since it had spread across the country by the late 1800s. It would then pre-date the Civil War and I'd imagine it was brought over by the early 1800s.
For additional notes see Main Headnotes,
R. Matteson 2017]
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Footnotes:
1. The Survey, Volume 33, 1915
2. No date given. From Memory Melodies- A Collection of Folk-Songs from Middle Tennessee- McDowell; 1947.
3. One early version is in "The Maiden's Complaint", 1633-4;
Shall I be bound, that may be free?
Shall I love them that love not me?
Why should I thus seeme to complaine?
I see that I cannot him obtain.
4. Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy (featuring Arthur Tanner, banjo and Riley Puckett, guitar, 4-29-1929 Columbia 15577-D)
5. "A New Love Song" [Unfortunate Swain] broadside c. 1750. From: Two excellent New songs. I. A new Love Song. II. Newcastle Ale, [1750?] (Roxburghe Ballads III. 421)
6. Davis included this song as a version of Child 76 in his Traditional Ballads of Virginia, 1929 as an Appendix.
7. See Belden's notes.
8. This was first recorded for Victor in 1929, then for Decca in 1938.
9. From: A Family Heritage: The Story and Songs of LaRena Clark by Edith Fowke, Jay Rahn, LaRena LeBarr Clark - 1994.
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CONTENTS:
Blue-Eyed Boy: McDowells (TN) c.1897 McDowell
My Blue-Eyed Boy: Brayman (AR) 1900 Randolph A
My Blue-eyed Boy: Sadie Hewitt (NE) 1905 Pound
Blue-eyed Boy: Julia Rickman (MO) 1909 Belden A
Blue-eyed Boy: Nita Stebbins (MO) 1909 Belden D
Blue-eyed Boy: Autherson (WS-MO) 1910 Belden B
Adieu- Shirley Hunt (MO) 1911 Belden C
Adieu- Mrs. Stone (VA) 1916 Davis [text on this page]
My Blue Eyed Boy- F. Ries (OH) 1927 Sandburg
My Blue-Eyed Boy: Mrs Jones(MO)1928 Randolph B
Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy- Carters (VA) 1929
Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy- Tanner (GA) 1929
Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy: Red Anderson (KY) 1933
Blue-Eyed Boy: Nathan Hicks (NC) 1933 Matteson
Blue-Eyed Boy: Mrs Vaughan (IN) 1935 Brewster
My Blue-Eyed Boy: Miss Haigood (OK) 1939 Owens
Blue-Eyed Boy: Abrams (NC) c.1940 Brown A
Blue-Eyed Boy: Abrams (NC) c.1940 Brown B
Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy: A'nt Idy (KY) 1941
Blue-Eyed Boy: Reba McDonald (AR) 1942 Rand C
Blue-Eyed Boy: Myrtle Hester (AL) 1950 Arnold
Remember Well- Fred High (MO) 1951 High
Go Bring Me Back- Dunham (AL) 1953 Browne B
Blue-Eyed Boy: Lizzie Maguire (AR) 1958 Parler
Go and Bring Me- LaRena Clark (ON) c.1960 Fowke
Blue-Eyed Boy: O.B. Campbell (OK) 1971 Hunter
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ADD:
[Brown vol. III, 1952]
265 There Comes a Fellow with a Derby Hat
This appears to be a patching together of music-hall matter — the opening stanza— and stanzas from 'The Blue-Eyed Boy,' p. 298.
'There Comes a Fellow with a Derby Hat.' From the manuscript song- book of -Miss Edith Walker of Boone, Watagua county.
1 There comes a fellow with a derby hat.
They say he's jealous, but what of that?
If he is jealous, I am gay ;
I can get a sweetheart any day.
Chorus: Go bring me back the one I love,
Go bring my darling back to me.
They say that he loves another girl;
If true, he's proven false to me.
2 There sits a bird on yonder tree.
They say he's blind and cannot see.
If I had only been like he
Before I'd a-kept your company!
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Notes by Belden in Ballads and Songs, 1940
The Blue-Eyed Boy
Here divers images or motifs seem to have been gathered around a refrain stanza which gives the name to the song. I have found. it reported from else-where only in Nebraska (ABS 272-3). In A the refrain stanza is not marked as such and the other elements are the hand and lips image (vaguely remembered from The Lass of Roch Royal), the turtle dove, the green willow tree, and 'Must I go bound while he goes free?';[1] in B, the lover going to sea, the value of a true friend., the little bird, and the refrain stanza; in C, the harp hung on the willow tree (which here has thrust the 'blue-eyed boy' stanza from its place as refrain),'Must I go bound and you go free?', the value of a true friend, and the turtle dove. D lacks the 'blue-eyed boy' altogether, but I have included it here because of the 'Must I go bound' stanza; the other stanza belongs to the tradition of 'There is an Alehouse in Yonder Town,' for which see the headnote to The Butcher Boy.
1. Known also in Dorsetshire (JFSS VII 69), Virginia (TBV 269-70, SCSM 284-5 319), and North Carolina (BMFSB 50-1, SCSM 288 288). It goes back at least to the seventeenth century; see Ronburghe Ballads YII 104-5.
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Brown Collection III
257. The Blue-Eyed Boy
One of those Protean folk-lyrics whose identity is hard to fix because they shift from text to text, taking on new elements and dropping old ones from the general reservoir of the folk fancy. What may however fairly be called forms of this song have been found in North Carolina '( BMFSB 50-1 ), Arkansas (OFS iv 262), Missouri (BSM 478-80. OFS iv 261), Indiana (BSI 339), and Nebraska (ABS 212-13). The two texts in our collection illustrate its instability.
A. 'Blue-Eyed Boy.' Communicated by W. Amos Abrams of Boone, Watauga county. Not dated. The second quatrain is in his copy marked "chorus," but one suspects that it is really the first quatrain
that serves that function.
1 Oh, bring me back my blue eyed boy.
Oh, bring my true love back to me.
Oh, bring me back my blue eyed boy
And forever happy will I be.
2 Must I go bound while he goes free?
Or must I act the childish part?
Must I love a man that don't love me
And marry the man that broke my heart?
3 There is a ring that has no end,
It is hard to find a faithful friend.
But when you find one good and true
Change not the old one for the new.
4 There is a tree I love to pass
That sheds its leaves as green as grass;
But none so green as love is true.
Change not the old love for the new.
5 Some say that courting is pleasure ;
But oh, what pleasure do I see?
For the boy I love most dearly
Has now forsaken me.
B. "Blue-Eyed Boy." This second text is also from Professor Abrams, but bears no date nor any indicating of source. Here the right quatrain is marked as chorus.
1 Some say that low is pleasure.
But no pleasure do I see;
For the only boy I ever loved
Has gone square back on me.
Chorus:
Oh, bring, me hack my darling[],
Oh, bring him hack to me.
Oh, bring me hack my darling;
He's all the world to me.
2 There's many a change in seasons,
Oh, there's many a change in sea ;
And there's many a change in a young man's heart ;
But there's no change in me.
3 Last night he came to see me;
Last night he smiled on me.
But tonight he's with another girl —
He cares no more tor me.
4 Oh, don't you remember
That night long, long ago
When he asked me to be his bride
Of course I answered No.
5 He's gone, though, now. God bless him,
He's mine where'er he be.
He may roam this wide world o'er and o'er
But he'll find no girl like me.
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Blue Eyed Boy
Cat. #1171 (MFH #814) - As sung by O.B. Campbell, Vinita, Oklahoma on August 9, 1971
VERSE 1
O, who, O who, will be my friend
O, who will kiss my rosy lips
O, who will love my little white hand
While he is in that foreign land
CHORUS:
O, bring me back th man I love
O, bring me my darlin' back to me
O, bring my blue eyed boy to me
An' then, how happy I will be
VERSE 2
My Father, dear will be my friend
My Sister dear, will kiss my lips
But there's no one to love my hand
While he is in that foreign land
VERSE 3
If I, th wings of a turtle dove
I'd fly to him, to him I love
I would fly to him, I love so dear
An' talk to him while he is near
VERSE 4
But I've not th wings to fly away
An' so, at home an' sorrow, I must stay
It'll only, it'll only waste a life
By another girl he calls his wife
VERSE 5
Must I go bound an' he go free
Must I love a man that don't love me
Must I act a childish part
An' love a man that breaks my heart
VERSE 6
My life is like a little bird
That flies from tree to tree
An' when he sees a fairer flower
He soons forgets to think of me
VERSE 7
Remember well, and bear in mind
That a good true friend is hard to find
An' when you find one good an' true
Change not the old one for th new
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Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy (feat. Arthur Tanner, banjo and Riley Puckett, guitar, 4-29-1929 Columbia 15577-D)
Bring me back my blue-eyed boy,
Bring oh bring him back to me,
Bring me back my blue-eyed boy,
And oh how happy I will be.
Must I go bound and you go free?
Must I go bound and you go free?
No, no, no, that never shall be
That love like that shall conquer me.
Chorus
Captain, captain tell me true,
Does your Willie sail with you,
No, no , no he does not sail with me
He done drowned in the deep blue sea.
Chorus
Captain, captain tell me boat,
Down the river I will float,
Every ship that I pass by,
I hear sweet Willie cry.
Chorus
On the railroad banks I stand,
On the railroad banks I stand
On the railroad banks I stand
A-shooting at another man.
Chorus
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[see also hard to be loved/Ain't it hard (Guthrie)
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Memory Melodies- A Collection of Folk-Songs from Middle Tennessee- McDowell; 1947
Blue-Eyed Boy- McDowells c. 1890s
Similar to "All the Good Times are Past and Gone," also the Cuckoo family of songs.
BLUE-EYED BOY
Oh, bring me back my blue-eyed boy,
Oh, bring him back to me;
If I could have the same one I love
How happy I should be!
'Tis hard to love and not be loved
'Tis hard to love in vain;
'Tis hard to love another's love,
And not be loved again.
My love is like a little bird
That flies from tree to tree,
And when he finds another girl
He cares no more for me.
This is as remembered by Mrs. McDowell and her husband, with slight additions and corrections by Mrs. Ella Turner, who has another stanza with the gender changed and which is not identified by the McDowells. The tune is as they all remember. This song suggests strongly "My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose," by Robert Burns.
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Ideology and Folksong Re-creation in the Home-recorded Repertoire of W. D. Collins by Melinda S. Collins
"My Blue-Eyed Boy" sung by W.D. Collins- no longer online
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CD D 041 British Archive of Country Music
My blue eyed boy (Karl Davis)
Lily May Ledford,
Blue eyed boy (2:10)
Greenhays Recordings ; Chicago, IL : Marketed by Flying Fish Records, p1983.
Louis Bird -- Blue eyed boy
The Vocalion label : classic old time music.
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[Beech Mountain Ballads by Maurice Matteson and Mellinger Henry, G. Shirmer NY, 1936.
THE BLUE-EYED BOY, sung by Nathan Hicks August, 1933.
Must I go bound while he goes free?
Must I love a boy that don't love me?
Must I then act the childish part,
And love a boy till he breaks my heart?
Refrain: Go, bring me back my blue-eyed boy;
Go, bring my darling back to me;
Go, bring me back my blue-eyed boy
And happy ever I will be.
No, I'll not go bound while he goes free;
No, I'll not love a boy that don't love me;
No, I'll not act the childish part,
And love a boy till he breaks my heart.
Refrain
Last night my true love told me that
He'd take me across the deep blue sea,
But now he's gone and left me alone-
A poor orphan girl without a home.
Refrain
Right here in this little town
My true love goes and he sits down,
He takes other girls upon his knee
And tells them things he won't tell me.
Refrain
My true love is like a little bird
That flies from tree to tree,
And while he's with some other girl,
He very seldom thinks of me.
Refrain
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Missing Versions;
Bring Back My Blue-eyed Boy to Me
Roud Folksong Index (S230102)
First Line:
Source: WPA Collection, Univ. of Virginia, Charlotteville, No.140 (version a)
Performer: Cannaday, Miss Vera
Date: 1939 (9 Jan)
Place: USA : Virginia : Ferrum
Collector: Sloan, Raymond H.
Roud No: 18831
My Blue-eyed Boy So True
Roud Folksong Index (S245511)
First Line:
Source: WPA Collection, Univ. of Virginia, Charlotteville, No.946 (version a)
Performer: Johnston, Lovell & Jessie J.
Date: 1942 (16 Feb)
Place: USA : Virginia : Wise
Collector: Hylton, James M.
Roud No: 18831
Bring Me Back the One I Love
Roud Broadside Index (B131450)
First Line: My love is a-going across the sea
Source: Kenneth S. Goldstein Broadside Collection (Center for Popular Music, Middl Tennessee State Univ.)
Printer/Publisher: H.J. Wehman (New York) No.569
Bring Me Back the Boy I Love
Roud Folksong Index (S139534)
First Line: This world is round and it has no end
Source: Edith Fowke Coll. (FO 61)
Performer: Leahy, John
Date: 1961 (Sep)
Place: Canada : Ontario : Douro
Collector: Fowke, Edith
Roud No: 18831
Blue-eyed Boy
Roud Folksong Index (S199127)
First Line: Last night my true love he told me
Source: Dugaw: Mid-America Folklore 11:2 (1983) pp.10-11
Performer: Hightower, Lawrence
Date: 1973 (Aug)
Place: USA : Arkansas : Bee Branch
Collector: Dugaw, Dianne
Bring Back My Blue-eyed Boy
Roud Folksong Index (S379500)
First Line: Remember well and bear n mind
Source: Arkansas Traditions ('Not Far From Here..')
Performer: Cowden, Noble
Date: 19870-1980
Place: USA : Arkansas : Cushman
Collector: West, George / McNeil, William K.
Adieu
Roud Folksong Index (S375488)
First Line:
Source: McMullen, The Prairie Sings (MA thesis: Univ of Kansas, 1946) p.89
Performer:
Date: 1940s (?)
Place: USA : Kansas
Collector: McMullen, Mildred Miranda (?)
Bring Back My Blue-eyed Boy to Me
Roud Folksong Index (S310130)
First Line:
Source: Crabtree, Songs & Ballads Sung in Overton County, Tennessee (1936) p.247
Performer:
Date:
Place: USA : Tennessee : Overton County