４０ 恋はうつり気 I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man

４０　　恋はうつり気　　I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man

 

I wish to the Lord I never been born,

Nor died when I was young,

I never would've seen them two brown eyes,

Nor heard that flattering tongue, my love,

Or heard that flattering tongue.

 

  I truly understand that you love another man,

  And your heart shall no longer be mine.

  I truly understand that you love another man,

  And your heart shall no longer be mine.

 

Who will shoe your little feet,

Who will glove your hand,

Who will kiss your red rosy cheeks,

When I'm in the foreign land, my love,

When I'm in the foreign land, my love.

 

Remember what you told me, dear,

As we stood side by side,

You promised that you'd marry me,

And be no other man's bride, my love,

And be no other man's bride, my love.

 

I never will listen what another woman says,

Let her hair be black or brown,

For I'd rather be on the top of some hill,

And the rain a-pouring down, down,

And the rain a-pouring down, down.

 

My father will shoe my little feet,

My mother will glove my hand,

And you will kiss my red rosy cheeks,

When I'm in the foreign land, O love,

When I'm in the foreign land, O love.

 

 

From the recording by George (Shortbuckle) Roark, of Pineville,

Kentucky and his family (1928). Transcribed by Lyle Lofgren.

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