Who's Goin' to Shoe- Wilcox (VA) 1933 Niles B
[From: The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, 1961 version B. With Niles, it's impossible to determine if the version is traditional or a ballad recreation.
R. Matteson 2015]
Who's Goin' to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot- Sung by Prez Wilcox; August, 1933, near Marion, Virginia.
1. Oh, who's goin' to shoe your pretty little foot,
Oh, who's goin' to glove your hand-ee-o,
Oh, who's goin' to kiss your red-rosy lips,
When I'm in that furrin land-ee-o?
2. Oh, it's call in a fine carpenter,
It's make a ship for me-o,
For I must seek out Lovin' George
Wherever he can be-o.
3. How far, how far, she sailed east,
She sailed many a mile-o,
Until her boat was just fornenst[1]
The castle and the pile-o.
4. "Be you the lass of Royal Run,
Or give me a token true-o,
That I will know you be no witch
With hair wet of the dew-o."
5. Love George he kissed her red-rosy lips,
And swore he'd glove her hand-ee-o,
And died beside her as she lay
Cold on the salt-sea sand-ee-o.
1. Opposite.