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Thread #84660 Message #2807667
Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Jan-10 - 03:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: don't ever love a sailor/you'll find out
Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T NEVER TRUST A SAILOR (trad. Ozarks)
From Ozark Folksongs, Vol. IV: Religious Songs and Other Items by Vance Randolph (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1980), page 328:
DON'T NEVER TRUST A SAILOR
Sung by Dr. George E. Hastings, Fayetteville, Ark., Dec. 7, 1941.
Once I loved a sailor as dear as my life.
Oft-times he promised for to make me his wife,
But now he is sick for another one you see,
So he got me with child and he turned his back on me.
My parents they chastised me because I done so,
And now I am despised by the other girls I know.
My father and my mother they turned me from their door,
So now I go a-begging because I am poor.
Come all you pretty maids wherever you may be,
Don't never trust a sailor an inch above your knee.
They'll kiss you and court you and swear they will prove true,
Then get sick for another one and bid you adieu.