Two little girls in blue, lad

voiceCollected by Merlin Mitchell Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Reel 79, Item 3 Two Little Girls in Blue An old man gazed on a photy-graph In a locket he'd worn for years; His nephew asked the reason why The photo caused them tears; Come listen, he said, I'll tell to you A story that's strange but true, Your father and I at school one day Met two little girls in blue. Chorus Two little girls in blue, lad Two little girls in blue, They were sisters, we were brothers, And we learned to love the two; One of those girls in blue, lad Won your father's heart, Became your mother, I married the other, And we have wandered apart. This picture is one of those girls, he said, To me she was oncst a wife, I thought her unfaithful, we quarreled, lad, And parted that night for life, 'Twas fancy of jealousy wronged a heart, A heart that were good and true, For two better girls ne'er lived than they, Those two little girls in blue. Tom Boyd Patrick, Ark. November 3, 1950 ChorusFunding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation