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I once did know a yellow girl, for her I once did sigh. I thought we could make a match just like a hook and eye, I ax'd her if she'd have me, when she gave me such a look, I really thought she would say "yes-- she said it with a hook. Oh, Katy, Oh, Katy, don't marry any oder, You'll brake my heart, indeed you will, den you'll be hung for murder. One night she went a walking out with Sam Gemimon Bowers, Dey went down in the buckwheat fields, among the crimson flowers, He said dat he would give his love if she'd but give him hers, I felt as tho' I'se sitting on a pint of chestnut burs. Oh, Katy, Oh, Katy, don't marry any oder, You'll brake my heart, indeed you will, den you'll be hung for murder. I'll call dat darkey out, I will, and kill him very dead, I hear the bullets running through his huckelberry head; And if she loves another man I'll go and squeeze her wiz'n, And if she'll not be mine, by gum, she neber shall be hiz'n. O, Katy, O, Katy, don't marry any oder, You'll brake my heart, indeed you will, den you'll be hung for murder. |
