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Thread #161981   Message #3863192
Posted By: Richie
27-Jun-17 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Died for Love Sources: PART IV
Subject: RE: Origins: Died for Love Sources: PART IV
Hi,

After checking I added three more US versions:

My Blue-Eyed Boy: Miss Haigood (OK) 1939 Owens
Remember Well- Fred High (MO) c. 1951 High
Blue-Eyed Boy: Myrtle Hester (AL) 1950 Arnold

The last version has the Child 76 stanza:

Blue-Eyed Boy: as sung by Myrtle Hester of Florence, Alabama, before 1950, collected by Bryon Arnold.

Oh who, oh who, will be my friend,
Oh who will love[1] my lily white hand
Oh who will kiss my ruby lips,
When he is in some foreign land.

CHORUS: Oh bring me back my blue-eyed boy
Oh bring back my darling back to me
Oh bring me back my blue-eyed boy,
And oh, how happy I would be.

Had I the wings of a little dove,
I'd fly to him I love, I love.
I'd fly to him I love so dear
And talk to him while she was near.

Remember well and bear in mind
That faithful man is hard to find,
And when you find one brave and true
Don't forsake the old one for the new.

1. usually "glove"

Stanza two is similar to "Little Sparrow" and implies that her lover is in another relationship.

Richie