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Thread #86334   Message #1615844
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Nov-05 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I Love Little Willie
Subject: Lyr Add: I LOVE LITTLE WILLIE (from Vance Randolph
Thanks, Masato. I knew it was familiar.

There are three versions of the lyrics and two tunes in Randolph's Ozark Folksongs. Here's #382A

I Love Little Willie
(Randolph 382A)
contributed by Mr. Louis Goether, Hot Springs, Arkansas, March 16, 1933

I love little Willie
I do, I do,
I love little Willie
But don't you tell Paw!
For I caint help it.
How can I now, Maw?

He wrote me a letter,
He did, he did,
He wrote me a letter,
But don't you tell Paw!
For I caint help it.
How can I now, Maw?

An' now we are married,
We are, we are,
An' now we are married,
But don't you tell Paw!
For I caint help it.
How can I now, Maw?

We fuss an' we scratch,
We do, we do,
We fuss an' we scratch
But don't you tell Paw!
For I caint help it.
How can I now, Maw?