LET HIM GO, LET HIM TARRY



(This version, or something much like it, was popular in England

in the 1940's --- Gracie Fields recorded it. No idea how old it

is, but it sounds 1870-1930 music hall. RG)



cho: Let him go, let him tarry, let him sink or let him swim;

He don't care for me, and I'm sure I don't for him

He can go and find another, and I hope she'll bring him joy

For I'm goin' to marry a far nicer boy.



Farewell to cold winter, now that summer's come at last;

Nothing have I gained, but my true love I have lost.

I'll sing and I'll be happy like a bird upon the tree

For since he deceived me, I care no more for he.



cho:



He wrote me a letter saying he was very bad,

I sent him back an answer saying I was very glad.

He wrote me another saying he was well and strong,

But I care no more for him than the ground he walks upon.



cho:



Some of his friends had a good kind wish for me,

Others of his friends, they could hang me from a tree;

But soon I'll let them see my love, and soon I'll let them know

That I can get a new sweetheart on any ground I go.



cho:



He can go to his old mother,now, and set her mind at ease,

For she's a mean old woman, and very hard to please,

It's slighting me and talking ill is all she's ever done

Since I was courtin' her great big ugly son.



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