That was a tough one, Dave - but I think I've found it in The Peggy Seeger Songbook (1998).

DARLING ANNIE
(Peggy Seeger)


HE: If you'll marry me, I'll give you everything I have,
You won't ever need to earn a penny;
I will be your man, and the ring upon your hand
Will tell the world that you're my darling Annie.

SHE: Thank you love, I'll be glad to add your wages on to mine,
I can work and keep myself so handy;
You can be my man without a golden wedding-band,
And I'll tell the world that I'm your Annie.

CHORUS (after each of her verses):
For it's love, love will hold us, love is everything,
Who could dream of anything that's better?
Not the vow, not the string, not the golden wedding-ring,
Just you, love, you and me together.

HE: If you'll marry me, I will give to you my name,
It will shield you from idle talk and envy;
For when you play the game you're secure from any blame,
Not ashamed to be my darling Annie.

SHE: Thank you love, I'm grateful for the offer of your name,
But my own will serve as well as any;
I don't like the game and the rules would make me tame,
Not the same girl you married, not your Annie. (chorus)

HE: If you'll marry me, we'll get a house and settle down,
A place to call our own, so neat and canny;
With a family and a home, love, you'll never feel alone,
Left on the shelf, a spinster, darling Annie.

SHE: Dearest love, we could surely find a place to call our own,
All we need is influence and money.
But I don't need a ring, or a house or anything
To become a mother or a granny. (chorus)

HE: If you'll marry me, I will be faithful unto death,
You will have all my love and my attention;
We will care, we will share life in sickness and in health—
And when I die you can draw the widow's pension.

SHE: I will live with you, and I'll be faithful unto death,
We will share all the burdens we must carry;
We'll always be free, me for you and you for me—
But when we're old, love, maybe we should marry! (chorus)

© Peggy Seeger, 1992

On the 1998 Peggy Seeger CD, Period Pieces: Women's Songs for Men & Women