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*#1 PEASANT* Songs/Poems of Joe Wilson (220* d) Lyr Add: PRETTY SWEETHEART JESSIE MAY (Joe Wilson) 11 May 17


Pretty Sweetheart, Jessie May

OH! Jessie, I am often doubting
That your love for me is true,
Ever changeful, laughing,-pouting,
Thus I often think of you;
Could I know its long endurance,
Lighter then my heart would be,
Give me but that dear assurance,
Then I'd live and love but thee.

I like but not a night's flirtation,
Scenes that never bring forth joy,
They dull each happy expectation,
Every blissful thought alloy;
Could I know that nought would sever
Hopes that linger night and day,
Then I'd call you mine for ever,
Pretty sweetheart, Jessie May.

Oblige ivrybody if ye can, an' if ye cannet, dinnet hinder onybody else for dein't.

Source: Joe Wilson,(author) Songs and Drolleries, 1890.


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