Morgan Sexton's version of "LITTLE SPARROW", from his June Appal recording MORGAN SEXTON - SHADY GROVE (JA00661) is as follows:

I wish I was a little sparrow
And I had wings and I could fly
I would fly away to a false-hearted lover
And there I'd stay until I died.

O if I was some little sparrow
And I had no wings and could not fly
I would set down in some grieving sorrow
Where you would laugh and I would cry.

There is a day a day a comin
We shall not part or I shall see
I hope there is a place in the middle of torment
For that man is deceiving me.

If I knew him before I courted him
There is love hard to win
I would lock my heart in a box of golden
I would pin it down there with a silver pin.

Morgan Sexton was born in 1911 on Long Branch Hollow near Linefork, in southeastern Kentucky. He died on January 30th, 1992.