Annie girl, Annie girl, go ask your mother If you can be my bride today. If she says yes, come quick and tell me; If she says no we'll run away.
My momma says that she's not willin my papa says twill never do For me to leave a world of pleasure And run away with a man like you.
Annie girl, Annie girl, I've gold and silver Annie girl, Annie girl I've house and land Annie girl, Annie girl I've a world of pleasure That you can have at your command
It's what do I care for your gold and silver It's what do I care for your house and land What do I care for your world of pleasure When all I want is a handsome man?
Annie girl, Annie girl don't marry for beauty For beauty is a deceiving [fay] Beauty is the stars on a summer morning When the stars all fade away
I have a true lover out on the ocean For seven long years he's on the sea If he lives single for seven years longer Not a man on earth shall marry me
Perhaps your ture lover he is dronwed Perhaps he's on some battle-field slain Perhaps he's to some pretty girl married And his face you'll never see again
If he's drowned, I hope he is happy Or if he is slain in battle And if he is to some pretty girl ismarried I'll love the girl that married him.
Communicated by Mrs. GV Easley, Tula who stated in 1921 that it was one of the most popular songs in her girlhood in Calhoun County. This is a compound of three songs "The Drowsy Sleeper, The Spanish Lady, and A Pretty Fair Maid
AP Hudson, Folksongs of Mississippi. 1936 UNC Press