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SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY Sung by: W.P. Detherow Recorded in Batesville, AR 8/27/59 Click here to listen to the original recording Of the street where I reside. Sweet Rosie O'Grady . . . (Mr. Detherow: "I believe I can get that. This is 'Rosie O'Grady.'") Just down around the corner Of the street where I reside, There lives the prettiest little girl That anyone ever spied. Her name is Rose O'Grady, And I don't mind telling you That she's the sweetest little rose The garden ever grew. Chorus: Sweet Rosie O'Grady, My dear little Rose. She's my steady lady, 'Most everyone knows, And when we have married, How happy we'll be. I love sweet Rosie O'Grady, And Rosie O'Grady loves me. I never will forget the day She promised to be mine, As we sat telling love tales In a golden summertime. It is on her finger That I place this small engagement ring, While the little birds in the trees, This song they begin to sing. (Chorus) (Mr. Detherow: "I learnt this song in southwest Colorado, near the Long . . . Mountain, where I was helping build a reservoir; and we needed a cook, and I went down to a party at eight mile below there and found an old gentleman and an old lady and two boys . . . two children, one boy and one girl, and I got them a job working on the ditch. They was staying in the hills for the old lady's health; she was an invalid; and the four was fine singers. They were from Utah, and they were Mormons, for the only Mormons I ever was acquainted with. And they sung that song, and they had all the parts, and they really made music out of it. That was in 1900.") |
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All Songs Recorded by John Quincy Wolf, Jr., unless otherwise noted The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas Back to the Song Index Back to the Wolf Collection Homepage ©Copyright 2002 Lyon College |