Lyrics Pretty Polly - Pete Seeger

I courted pretty Polly to live long night

I courted pretty Polly to live a long night

And left her next morning before it was light

Pretty Polly, pretty Polly, you can go along with me

Before we get married, some pleasure to see

He led her over hills and the valleys so deep

Until pretty Polly, she commenced to weep

He led her a little farther, and what did they spy?

Bought a new dug grave, with a spade lying by

Oh Willie, oh Willie, I'm afraid of your way

I'm afraid you'll lead my poor body astray

Pretty Polly, pretty Polly, you guessed just 'bout right

I dug on your grave, biggest part of last night

She throwed her arms around him and trembled with fear

How can you kill a girl that was to you so dear?

He stabbed her to the heart, her heart's blood it did flow

Into the grave, pretty Polly did go

He throwed a little dirt over her and started for home

Leaving nothing behind but the wild birds to moan

Writer(s): R. Stanley

Album The Pete Seeger Story

date of release

08-06-2014

1 Plow Under
2 Delia's Gone
3 Wabash Cannonball
4 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
5 Fair Margaret and Sweet William
6 Sioux Indians
7 St.James Hospital
8 The Titanic Disaster
9 Sixteen Tons
10 Jay Goulds Daughter
11 Riflemen of Bennington
12 Tex-I-An Boys
13 Ida Red
14 The Blue Tailed Fly
15 Foggy Dew
16 The Golden Vanity
17 I've Been Working on a Railroad
18 Yankee Doodle
19 Frankie and Johnny
20 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
21 Beans, Bacon, & Gravy
22 Casey Jones
23 Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
24 The Farmer Is the Man
25 The Three Butchers
26 The Hammer Song (If I Had a Hammer)
27 Come All You Hardy Miners
28 The Wagoner's Lad
29 Lolly Too Dun
30 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
31 He Lies in the American Land
32 Old Riley
33 Cotton Mill Colic
34 Hold the Fort
35 Frog Went A-Courting
36 On Top of Old Smokey
37 Voting Union
38 C For Conscription
39 Buffalo Gals
40 Ballad of Barney Graham
41 Tzena Tzena Tzena
42 Don't You Weep After Me
43 Barbara Allen
44 Farther Along
45 Eight-Hour Day
46 Banks Are Made of Marble
47 Talking Blues
48 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
49 Ground Hog
50 Pittsburgh Town
51 Preacher and the Slave
52 The Strange Death Of John Doe
53 Dear Mr. President
54 Talking Atom
55 Hard Times in the Mill
56 Gypsy Davy
57 Mill Mother's Lament
58 Sixty Per Cent
59 Rock Island Line
60 Down In the Valley
61 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
62 Goodnight Irene
63 Peg and Awl
64 Pretty Polly
65 The Blind Fiddler
66 Kumbaya
67 John Henry
68 Wimoweh
69 Down in Carlisle
70 Hayseed Like Mine
71 Around the World
72 Home On the Range
73 The Dove
74 Molly Malone
75 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
76 Roll Down the Line
77 My Children are Seven in Number
78 John Hardy
79 The Wreck of the Old '97
80 Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
81 Five Fingers
82 The Farmer's Curst Wife
83 The Death of Harry Simms
84 Raggedy
85 Jesse James
86 To Everyone in All the World
87 Red River Valley
88 We are Moving on to Victory
89 T.B. Blues
90 Skip to My Lou
91 Brother Can You Spare a Dime
92 Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
93 Cielito Lindo
94 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
95 Old Dan Tucker

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