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Title
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Betsy and Mary
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Singer
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Harris, Charles
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
Till I fell in love I was happy enow,
At threshing or reaping, at harrow or plough;
At sunrise each morn with the lark I was springing,
And just like the lark I was always a-singing.
Verse 2
Oh, Cupid, quite envious of my happy life,
Put it into my head that I wanted a wife;
About love and such like things completely a dunce,
I fell slap in love with two wenches at once.
Verse 3
Oh, Mary's as fair as an angel could be,
Eyes like sweet Betsy I never did see;
I tried all in vain my hot feelings to smother,
By looking first at one and then at the other.
Verse 4
If I went to see Mary to her I was blind,
Betsy directly came into my mind;
If I went to see Betsy it was quite the contrary,
For I was always sure to be thinking of Mary.
Verse 5
When Betsy looked at me, or when Mary smiled,
I felt all my senses completely beguiled;
'Twas all no use to look this way or that way,
Like a donkey betwixt two bundles of hay.
Verse 6
Things went on like for five or six weeks,
And I never could muster up courage to speak;
Till, all of a sudden, they both went to church,
And left me a bachelor quite in the lurch.
Verse 7
Young men, be advised, and get it into your sconce,
And never go courting two wenches at once;
For with one lass you may work your way safe and sound,
But between two stools your rump comes to the ground.
