Somebody is waiting for me, Someone who loves me I know,

voiceCollected and transcribed by Mary Celestia Parler Sung by Mrs. Pearl Brewer Pocahontas, Arkansas August 28, 1958 Reel 296, Item 6 The Concert Garden It was in a Concert Garden When the sun was at its height Just as the wine began to flow When a tall and handsome youth Rose up to his highth and said, Good night, boys, I must go. Chorus: Somebody is waiting for me, Someone who loves me I know, Somebody is wondering where I am to-night. Oh, what can be keeping me so? Somebody is waiting, Anxiously waiting for me, There’s a light shining bright In the windows tonight, Somebody is waiting for me. Oh, yes, you have a sweetheart, Some among them softly said, Is she handsome? Interduce us, 0 Jack, do. He said, Poller to the cottage Where she sets with a bowed down head, For she’s the only sweetheart I ever knew. And he led than to the cottage Which he called the House of Prayer, There set a gray-haired woman With a bowed down head. There's my sweetheart, there's my mother, The only sweetheart I ever knew Now, you see I told you the truth, boys When I said: ChorusFunding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation