A good place to put them Joe - all together (Like items for Monkey Boy's thread may someday become united.)

Another:

Emrish, Duncan, American Folk Poetry - An Anthology, Chapter, "Oh, I Wish I were Single Again," Little Brown and Co., 1974 p 196. "IHave Always Heard of These old Men" was collected by Mellinger E. Henry from the singing of Mrs. Mary Tucker, Varnell, Georgia, 1930. Mrs. Tucker is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Harmon of Cade's Cove, Tennessee, See Mellinger E. Henry, "Ballads and Folk-Songs from the Sourther Highlands," JAF, 45 (1932) 124-125.

I HAVE ALWAYS HEARD OF THESE OLD MEN

I have always heard of these old men
Until I got one at last.
I wish grim death had seized him
Before I seen his face.

I wish grim death had seized him
And tuk him at a call
So I may have a-married some younger man
To roll me from the wall.

"Hold your tongue, pretty Polly,
For I am going to town:
I will buy you a beaver bonnet,
Likewise a Holland gown.

"I will buy you a beaver bonnet
A holland gown likewise;
Also a little black boy
To follow your riding cheer."

"What care I for your black boy?
Your riding cheer likewise?
I rahter married some younger man
With sparkles in his eyes."

I rather wedded some younger man-
Lay on a bed of hay -
As to wedded myself to this old man,
For he is always in the way.

He never in good order;
He never in good tune;
And when he gets away from home-
Not able to return.

This old man he will come boggling in
Just like he had no life.
A young man he come scapering home
Saying, "Kiss me, my dear wife."

Sincerely,
Gargoyle