When I Wake in the Morning

“When I Wake in the Morning”

Description

The singer is "surrounded by sorrow ... lovely Jimmie if you knew what I knew." "When the boys come to court ... I do them disdain ... I never will marry till [my love] comes back again"

Supplemental text

When I Wake in the Morning
  Complete text(s)

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As sung by Angelo Dornan, Elgin, N. B., for Helen Creighton in 1954.
The transcription is from Creighton's Maritime Folk Songs album.

When I Wake in the Morning
When I wake in the morning I go to my window
I take a long look o'er the place that I know
I'm surrounded by sorrow, will I never see tomorrow?
O Jimmie, lovely Jimmie, if you knew what I know.

When the boys come to court they all swear they love me
But I like a hero I do them disdain
My love's gone and left me, no other man will get me
And I never will marry till he comes back again.

Notes

Angelo Dornan is a major source for Creighton-Maritime and Creighton-SouthNB. Many of his songs, like this one, are fragments that are too brief for me to identify. - BS

Paul Stamler and I also puzzled over this independently. We've given up and are filing it as a loose fragment. - RBW

Recordings

Angelo Dornan, "When I Wake in the Morning" (on MRHCreighton)

References