Polly Hopkins and Tommy Tompkins

This item is part of the I. G. Greer Folksong Collection which consists of more than 300 individual song titles and their variants as collected by Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967) from informants, primarily in Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties. The collection includes manuscripts, typescript transcriptions produced by Dr. Greer’s clerical staff, and handwritten musical notations. Songs range from traditional Child Ballads, traditional English and Scottish ballads as well as their American variants, to 19th century popular music to musical compositions of local origin.

Popular music--United States

Teasing--Songs and music

Marriage--Songs and music

Death--Songs and music

Paddon, John

AC.113 Isaac Garfield (I.G.) Greer Papers and Recordings

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

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Polly Hopkins and Tommy Tompkins

Tommy - Pretty, pretty Polly Hopkins, how do you do?

Polly - None the better, Tommy Tompkins, for seeing you.

T I am a man of wealth.

P Be quiet, pray.

T Take all my

P Pray get away.

T Oh! cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins, to treat me so.

P Oh! cruel, cruel Tommy Tompkins, to tease me so.



T When we are married, Polly Hopkins, which we will be.

P I hope the next day, Tommy Tompkins, to bury thee.

T I will handsome grow.

P That I deny.

T Though ugly now.

P Worse by and by.

T Oh! cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins, to treat me so.

P Oh! cruel, cruel Tommy Tompkins, to tease me so.



T When I am dead, Polly Hopkins, remember me.

P With all my heart, Tommy Tompkins, so let it be.

T Then you will fret and cry.

P Ah! to be sure.

T To think that I.

P Died not before.

T Oh! cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins, to treat me so.

P - Repeat

1827

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