I love that verse, but I've only encountered it in the song "Blue-Eyed Boy," as performed by Julie Henigan on her fine cd, American Stranger. She ways she got it from her friend Anne MacFie, who got it from "the late, great Lily May Ledford".

Here's the text:

BLUE-EYED BOY

Oh, do you remember that rocky hillside
Where we sat down to rest?
You promised to be my blue-eyed boy
While the sun rolled around in the west.

Oh, Mary, don't you weep. Don't you go, little gal.
Come to me one more time.
Oh, Mary, don't you weep. Don't you go, little gal.
Come to me one more time.

I wish to the Lord that I never had been born,
Or died when I was young,
Before I'd-a seen them pretty blue eyes
Or heared (sic) your lying tongue.

I never will believe what another man says
Though his eyes be blue or brown,
Unless he is on some scaffold to be hung
And he says that he wants to come down.

The False Young Man is usually said to be a fragment of Young Hunting (Child #68). Blue-Eyed Boy looks like a fragment of a fragment. :-)

~ Becky in Tucson

Link fixed (quotation mark added). --JoeClone, 28-Jan-03.