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Thread #71042   Message #3850737
Posted By: Richie
16-Apr-17 - 02:42 PM
Thread Name: ADD: I Wish My Baby Was Born ('Cold Mountain')
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Wish My Baby Was Born ('Cold Mountain')
Hi,

I'm adding this to my US versions here: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/us--canada-versions-7-died-for-lovebutcher-boy.aspx

This page is unfinished. Have a dozen or so versions still to put on.
I think the text (1st line second stanza) as it appears online is wrong so I'm including it here:

I WISH MY BABY WAS BORN- Dillard Chandler of Madison, NC, 1965 recording

I wish I wish my baby was born
And setting on my papa's knee,
And me poor girl were dead in gone
And the green grass growing over my grave,

That ain't not hit, ner never will be[1],
Till the sweet apple grows on the sour apple tree
But still I hope the time will come,
When you and I shall be as one.

1. (Translated) That isn't it, nor never will be,

Richie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Gm5qShn40