"Mrs. Vickers' Daughter," Maine: from the WPA manuscript collection, Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress.

Emrich, Duncan, American Folk Poetry – An Anthology Little, Brown and Company – Boston, 1974, p 41.

MRS. VICKER'S DAUGHTER

Johnny Thomson, so they say,
Goes a-courting every day,
Sword and pistol by his side,
Lizzie Vickers for his bride.

Oh, dear doctor, can you tell
What will make poor Lizzie well?
She is sick and she may die,
That would make poor Johnny cry.

Johnny here and Johnny there,
Johnny o'er the water,
Johnny's got the sweetest girl.
Mrs. Vickers' daughter.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle