“My Lula Lou”
Description
"On the banks of the noble Cumberland I spent many happy hours Wandering there with my Lula Lou, Kentucky's sweetest flower." "She buckled on my sabre there." "The fatal shot has done its work"; now he waits for her to join him
Supplemental text
My Lula Lou
Partial text(s)
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From Harvey H. Fuson, Ballads of the Kentucky Highlands, pp. 124-125.
"From singing of Polly Rains."
On the banks of the noble Cumberland,
I spent many happy hours,
Wandering there with my Lula Lou,
Kentucky's sweetest flower,
Kentucky's sweetest flower
Kentucky's sweetest flower,
Wandering there with my Lula Lou,
Kentucky's sweetest flower.
(3 additional stanzas)
Notes
The ending of this song, at least as found in Fuson, is confused: The boy is shot, "and fainted and fell, and fell as dead," but "to-day his heart faints for your voice." - RBW
References
- Fuson, pp. 124-125, "My Lula Lou" (1 text)
- ST Fus124 (Partial)
- Roud #16367
- BI, Fus124