While The Dew Flies- Claiborn (AR) 1959 REC Bronson No. 28
[This form is similar to another Arkansas version, "The Green Valley."]
"While the Dew Flies Over the Green Valley"- Sung by Garland K. Claiborn, Green Forest, Ark., Dec. 29, 1959, LC/AAFS, rec. No. 12,044(A26)
1. I married me a wife and I took her home
And I wish to the Lord that I'd left her alone,
While the dew flies over the green valley
While the dew fies over the green valley.
2. Come in from work, corne in frorn the plow:
My dear little wife, is dinner ready now?
While the dew flies over the green valley
While the dew flies over the green valley.
3. Get out of here, you dirty whelp,
"If you want any dinner, you'll cook it yourself,
While the dew flies over the green valley
While the dew flies over tlre green valley.
4. I picked up my hat and I went to the barn
And I cut me a hickory as long as my arm.
While the dew flies over the green valley
While the dew flies over the green valley.
5. I trimmed it up and came walking back
And around her little back it went whickety whack,
While the dew flies over the green valley
While the dew flies over the green valley.