Alan Lomax, Ed McCurdy, Alan Lomax & Ed McCurdy - The Rich Old Lady текст песни

Once I knowed old lady
Round Tennessee did dwell
She had a lovin' husband
But she loved other mens as well
Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O
I’m goin' down to the doctor’s shop
Just as quick as I can go See if I can’t find sumpen 'round that place
That’ll run my husband blind
Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O She only found two marrowbone
An' she told them to suck them all
An says, Now I’m blind my dear young wife
An' I jes' can’t see at all
Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Well, I would go and drown myself
If I only knew the way
Says, Now my dear come and go with me Mother’s fraid you’ll run astray
Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Goes way down by the riverside
For to see her old man drown
My dear kind wife, I cannot drown
Unless you shove me in She gits way back, takes a little runnin' start
Gonna shove her old man in Old man jumps just a little to one side
And a-headlong she plunged in Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O She whooped and she hollered
Just as loud as any woman could squall
Old man knows his sweet wife’s dyin'
An' cannot see at all
Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Ol' man bein' so kind-hearted
Knowin' too his sweet wife could not swim
Reahed right down and git a long pole
And he shoves her further in Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Come all you hasty young women
An' take warnin' after me Don’t never try to drown a po' old man
That’s blind so he cannot see
Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O Love my darlin' O