Fanny Blair

1. One morning, one morning, one morning in May,
   As I went a-walking to breathe the sweet air,
   A young man came to me, These words he did say:
   "There's vengeance sworn against you by young Fanny Blair!"
   
   
2. "There is young Fanny Blair scarce eleven years old,
   I'm a-going to die so the truth I'll unfold.
   I never had dealing with her in my time
   'Tis hard to die for another man's crime.
   
   
3. Just before they counted table young Fanny was there,
   Brought up to profess herself she did prepare,
   Of judge's hard swearing, I'm ashamed for to tell.
   Says the judge, "Your old mother has tutored you well."
   
   
4. "There is one more thing of my old parents I crave,
   In the midst of their garden to dig my grave.
   I come of respectable parents, that's what you may know.
   I was born in old England, brought up in Tyrone."
   
   Source: Loraine Wyman's Twenty Kentucky Mountain Songs