The Light-green Parasol - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
THE LIGHT-GREEN PARASOL. By Frank Van Hess. Sung by Charles Morton. 
The most eventful, precious day, I never shall forget, 'Twas in the merry month of May, a blue-eyed girl I met. Oh! such a duck, with wavy hair, slender waist, and rather tall; She'd rosy cheeks, complexion fair, and a light-green parasol. 
Chorus. She'd a light-green parasol, she'd a light-green parasol; Fit for an earl, I thought this girl with a light-green parasol. 
She made a curtsey, then I bowed-what man could do much less? Said I: "There's rain in yonder cloud, take shelter, charming miss." "There's not a tree about, "said she, "but if the rain should fall, We both will find a shelter 'neath my light-green parasol.- Cho. 
Although the rain did not descend, I got beneath its shade; Said I: "I hope I don't offend." Said she: "Don't be afraid; You are just the partner I should choose for life or at a ball; So how a share can I refuse of my light-green parasol" - Chorus. 
I felt enraptured with her quite, so proffered her my hand. She accepted mine with much delight, but my woes you'll understand, When I tell you how I was victimized, which I was, no doubt at all, And by the only girl I prized, with the light-green parasol.- Chorus. 
Next morning we'd to meet at church, quite punctual I was there; But I found I'd been left in the lurch, and sold, too, I declare; For another chap, in wedding clothes, him her intended she did call. Who knocked me down and broke my nose with her light-green parasol.-Cho. 
How many wretched months rolled by, of her I saw no more, Till one morn I heard an infant cry on the footsteps near my door; I took the babe within my arms, but nearly let it fall; For in its breast it had the mark of a light-green parasol.- Chorus.