Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands - online songbook

Southern Appalachians songs with lyrics, commentary & some sheet music.

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	Ballads and Songs
	4. Next morning poor Willie was dead; He was drowned in the pond by the mill; The water so clear and so pure, It flows from the brow of the hill. 5. "O Willie, my sweetheart, come back, I will always be faithful and true; 0  Willie, my sweetheart, come back, 1 will always be faithful to you."
	c "Willie." Obtained from Miss Mary Franklin, Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina, July, 1929.
	1. They say it is sinful to flirt; Oh, they say that my heart is stone; Oh, they tell me to speak to him kindly.
	2. They say he is only a boy; But I am sure he is older than I; And if they would leave us alone, How much happier we would be I 3.1 remember the night when he said That he loved me far more than his life; He called me his love and his pet, And asked me to be his wife. 4. "Oh, Willie," I said with a smile, "I am sure I shall have to say no;" And he took from my hair a white rose And said, "Goodbye, I must go."
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