"Must I Go Bound" has two entries in the index of Randolph's Ozark Folksongs
(The Butcher Boy - tune is NOTHING similar to Sainte-Marie's)
Vol. I, "British Ballads" p. 230 under "Butcher Boy" #45, variation G, Mr. J.C. Wasson, Elm Springs, Ark, Dec. 22, 1941, sings the final stanza thus:
Must I go bound while he goes free?
Must I love the boy that don't love me?
Alas, alas, it will never be
Till oranges grows on apple trees.
variation H, A manuscript copy from Mrs. Arlie Feeman, Natural Dam, Ark, Jan 4, 1942 makes the same verse read:
Must I go bound while he goes free?
Must I love a boy that won't love me?
I laugh, I laugh, it will never be
Till oranges grow on apple trees.
Vol. I p. 227 , fourth stanza variation B: Some additional stanza supplied by Mrs. Violet Savory Justis, Clinton, Mo., July 1, 1928:
Must I be bound while he goes free?
Must I love a man that don't love me?
Or must I act a foolish part
An' die for man that's broke my heart?
HOWEVER, in Randolph's Vol IV, "Religious Songs and other Items" p. 260-262, # 759, the tune is virtually identical to the one used by Sainte-Marie (two notes different) and is noted as My Blue-Eyed Boy
Version A: Sung by Mrs. Elizabeth Brayman, Springfield, Mo., July 5 1933. Mrs. Brayman learned the song from her sister at Eureka Springs, Ark., about 1900.
Shall I go bound, shall I go free?
Shall I love a man that don't love me?
Or shall I act a childish part
An' love the man that broke my heart?
Version B: Sung by Mrs. W.E. Jones, Pineville, Mo., Feb. 14, 1928.
Must I go bound while he goes free,
Must I love him when he don't love me?
An' must I act a childish part
To love him when he broke my heart?
"Cox (Folk-Songs of the South 1925, p. 87 lists this as one of the songs into which the "shoe my foot" stanzas of "The Lass of Roch Royal" (Child 76) are often introduced. A very similar pieces is reported by Sandburg, (American Songbag 1927, p. 324) under the title "Go Bring Me Back My Blue-Eyed Boy." See also the "Blue-Eyed Boy" songs collected in Missouri by Belden (Ballads and Songs, 1940, pp 478-480."
Sincerely,
Gargoyle