Cat. #0330 (MFH #350) - As sung by Mrs. Olive Coberley, Wheatland, Missouri on May 12, 1959
VERSE 1
Lonesome scenes of winter
Inclined to frost and snow
Dark clouds around me gather
Th wind does cease to blow
VERSE 2
I went the other night
My own true love for t' see
I asked her to marry
But she would not answer me
VERSE 3
Th night is almost gone
T'is now, th break of day
I'm waiting for an answer
My love, what do you say
VERSE 4
Kind sir, if I must tell you
I choose a single life
I never thought it suited
For me to be your wife
VERSE 5
Now, take this for your answer
And for yourself provide
For I have another lover
And you are laid aside
VERSE 6
T'was on th income of six weeks
This ladies mind might change
She wrote t' me a letter
Kind sir, I'm quite ashamed
VERSE 7
I've felt as tho I've slighted you
I cannot hear you moan
O, here's my heart, come take it
And claim it as your own
VERSE 8
I wrote to her a letter
I sent it back in speed
I only once't did love you
I loved you then, indeed
VERSE 9
But since, my mind has changed me
I'll seek some other way
Upon some pretty fair damsel
More suitable for me
VERSE 10
Upon some pretty fair damsel
My heart shall take it's fill
This world is wide and lonely
If one won't, another will