Lyr. Add: Here Comes Three Lawyers
North Carolina, 20th c.

Here comes three lawyers, three lawyers we are,
A-courting your daughter, so rare and so fair.
Can we get lodgings here, oh here,
Can we get lodgings here?

This is my daughter that sits by my side,
And none of you lawyers can get her for a bride.
You cannot get lodgings here, oh here,
And you cannot get lodgings here.

We care nothing for your daughter and less for yourself.
I betcha five dollars I can better myself,
And we do not want lodgings here, oh here,
We do not want lodgings here.

(In acting it out, a lawyer carries a book, a merchant goods, a farmer corn, a pedlar a pack on the end of a stick.
The above is repeated for each, the last the pedlars).

This is my daughter that sits by my side,
And one of you pedlars can get her for a bride;
And you can get lodgings here, oh here,
And you can get lodgings here.

No tune provided.
MS notebook of Mrs Harold Glasscock, Raleigh, 1943, but from parents.
Frank C. Brown Coll. North Carolina Folklore, vol. 3, No. 68, Folk Songs from North Carolina, ed. H. M. Belden and A. P. Hudson, Duke Univ. Press, 1952.