I once knew a little girl,

voiceColl. by M.C. Parler William Eden and Max Hunter Monte Ne, Ark. January 11, 1960 Reel 324, Item 5 I once knew a little girl, I loved her as my life, I a freely give my heart and hand To a made her my wife. I tuck her by the arm And I led her to the door, I laid my arms around her And I asked her once more, Oh I asked her once more. She treated me with scorn And she caused me to pain, The answer that she give me was You needn't come again, Oh, you needn’t come again. She wrote to me a letter In about three weeks or four, And in that letter, yes, she said, Oh do come once more, Oh, do come once more. I wrote to her a letter Which our love most did contain And in it I told her, yes, I said. You’ve not forget the time you said I needn’t come again, Oh, I needn’t come again. And she wrote to me an answer Which our love most did contain, She said to me, You must forget the time I said You needn’t come again, Oh, you needn’t come again. I wrote to her a letter Just all for to let her know That young men ofttimes ventures where’d Where they’d ought not to go, Where they’d ought not to go. ”I learned that from one of my uncles. That was a younger uncle that I told you I learned the first one from. I learnt that from him. He was about four or five year older’n me.”Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation