Yonder Comes My Love 

Yonder Comes My Love/Yonder Comes my True Love/Yander Comes My True Love/

Old-Time Breakdown and Song

ARTIST: Song sung and played on banjo by Jim Couch and recorded in Harlan County, Kentucky by Leonard Roberts [1954].
 

CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes

EARLIEST DATE: 1930s

RECORDING INFO: Yonder Comes My True Love

Thede, Marion (ed.) / The Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p 27b [1930s] (Yander Comes My True Love)
 

SOURCES:  Folk Index; Kuntz

NOTES: The lyrics to Yander/Yonder Comes My True Love are found in a number of related songs including Tommy Jarell's "Train on the Island" and Obray Arlin Ramsey's "Yonder comes my true love."

Tommy Jarrell:

Yonder comes my true love, how do you reckon I know,

I tell her by her apron strings, tied up in a double bow.

YANDER COMES MY TRUE LOVE- Thede:  Described by Thede as a "Yankee love song."

Yander comes my true love

O how do you know her

I know her by her walk and I know her by her talk

And her shoe strings flappin' on the floor.  

YONDER COMES MY  LOVE- Jim Couch 
Song sung and played on banjo by Jim Couch and recorded in Harlan County, Kentucky by Leonard Roberts [1954]. 

 
Yonder comes my pretty little love,
How do you reckon I know?
Know her by her old cotton dress and shoes draggin' on the floor, oh lord
And her shoes draggin' on the floor.

Yonder comes my pretty little love,
She's all dressed in yeller.
Lookin' down at her pretty little feet and her shoes all greased and feather, oh lord
And her shoes all greased and feather

Yonder comes my pretty little love,
She's all dressed in red
Looking down at her pretty little feet, She wished my wife was dead oh lord,
She wished my wife was dead.

Goin' up on the mountain
Give my horn a blow
Prettiest girl in that town, yonder comes my beau, Lord
Yonder comes my beau.