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 American Folk Anthology

date of release

29-05-2009

1 Pretty Polly
2 The Three Butchers
3 John Henry
4 The Titanic Disaster
5 Fair Margaret and Sweet William
6 John Hardy
7 The Golden Vanity
8 Gypsy Davy
9 The Farmer's Curst Wife
10 Down in Carlisle
11 St.James Hospital
12 Jesse James
13 Barbara Allen
14 Sioux Indians
15 Tex-I-An Boys
16 Hold the Fort
17 Ground Hog
18 The Derby Ram
19 Down In the Valley
20 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
21 The Blue Tail Fly
22 Yankee Doodle
23 Cielito Lindo
24 Wabash Cannonball
25 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
26 Skip to My Lou
27 The Wagoner's Lad
28 The Wreck of the Old '97
29 Old Dan Tucker
30 I Ride an Old Paint
31 Frankie and Johnnie
32 On Top of Old Smokey
33 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
34 Home On the Range
35 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
36 She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
37 Peg and Awl
38 The Blind Fiddler
39 Buffalo Skinners
40 Eight-Hour Day
41 Hard Times in the Mill
42 Roll Down the Line
43 Hayseed Like Mine
44 The Farmer Is the Man
45 Come All You Hardy Miners
46 Hi Lies In the American Land
47 Casey Jones
48 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
49 Cotton Mill Colic
50 Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
51 Mill Mother's Lament
52 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
53 Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
54 The Death of Harry Simms
55 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
56 Ballad of Barney Graham
57 My Children are Seven in Number
58 Raggedy
59 Pittsburgh Town
60 Sixty Per Cent

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