Cat. #0343 (MFH #322) - As sung by Fran Majors, Fayetteville, Arkansas on May 23, 1959
VERSE 1
One Monday morning in July
Th weather being dry
T'was there I spied a pretty maid
On her, I cast an eye
On her, I cast an eye
T'was there I spied a pretty girl
On her, I cast an eye
VERSE 2
She was th very prettiest girl
That ever I did see
Her name it was, Jody Croger
O, she's th girl for me
VERSE 3
I went to see this pretty girl
T'was on a Thursday night
I told her, I'd come after her
To go with me that night
VERSE 4
She said, to go to play parties
That she was not inclined
I told her, I'd come back again
To talk some other time
VERSE 5
She said to me, just come along
For I will be at home
And, o I thought, my pretty girl
Some day you'll be my own
VERSE 6
T'was in th month of October
In eighteen hundred seventy nine
I went to see this pretty girl
She said, that she'd be mine
VERSE 7
She gave to me her lily white hand
She said, she'd be my wife
I gave her mine that I would be
Her husband, during life
VERSE 8
We had not been married very long
A happy man, was I
This awful thought came in my mind
Some day, she'd have to die
VERSE 9
Death came one day like a monster
And took my wife away