Marrowbones (The Rich Old Lady)
Alan Lomax (in Texas Folk Songs, from the singing of Iron Head)

Please, I need a word I can't get (I've put a question mark where it is, in the 6th stanza), and I'd like someone to check the rest as well. Thanks R

Once I knowed an old lady
Round Tennessee she dwell
Had a lovin' husband
And loved other mens as well

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O

Now I'm goin' down to the doctor's shop
Just as quick as I can go
See if I can find sumpen 'round that place
To run my husband blind

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O

Well, she only found two marrowbone
An' she made him suck them all
Now I'm blind my dear young wife
An' I cannot see at all

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O

Well, I would go and drown myself
If I only knew the way
Come, my dear, and I'll help you out
'Cause I'm scared you run astray

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O

Well, she got him way down by the riverside
Just to shove her Old man in
He stepped back just a little one side
And a-headlong she plunged in

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O

Well, she whooped and she hollered
Just as loud as any woman could squall
Come up dear and help me out
'Cause I loved you (??) it all

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O

But the Ol' man bein' so kind-hearted
Knowin' too his sweet wife could not swim
He reached right back and got a long pole
And he shoved her further in

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O

Come all you hasty young women
Take warnin' after me
Don't never try to drown a po' old man
He's blind and cannot see

Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O, yeah
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O, yeah
Love my darlin' O - Love my darlin' O