Cat. #0813 (MFH #118) - As sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on June 25, 1969
VERSE 1
Cannot be your sweetheart
Tell ya th reason why
My Mammas always told me
To pass a drunkard by
This I've said for many of a year
I'll say it all my life
I will never, no never
Will be a drunkards wife
VERSE 2
My sisters often told me
That a young'a girl as I
Should never go with a rambl'in man
Who had th drunkards eye
This I've said for many a year
I'll say it all my life
I will never, no never
Will be a drunkards wife
VERSE 3
Th black eyed boy, I do adore
Th blue eyed boy, I win
But that little ole pityfull red eyed boy
Can never step in
This I've said for many of a year
Say it all my life
I will never, no never
Be a drunkards wife