Yes Sir, No Sir- Perkins Flint (VT) 1944 Flanders
[Probably should be titled No Sir. From: D41A - archival cassette dub, Track 06b; the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives. This is similar to Wakefield's print version of 1881.
R. Matteson 2017]
Yes Sir, No Sir (No Sir) - sung by by Perkins Flint at Braintree Vermont. Dated 11-20-1944. Recorded by Flanders.
"My father was a Spanish merchant,
And before he went to sea,
He told me to be sure and answer
'No' to all you said to me."
CHORUS: "No sir, no sir, no sir, no sir,
"No sir, no sir, no sir, no."
"If when walking in the garden,
Picking flowers all wet with dew,
Tell me, would you be offended
If I walked and talked with you?"
CHORUS
"If when walking in the garden,
I should ask you to be mine,
Tell me one thing, tell me truly,
Would you then, my sweet, decline?"
CHORUS