JENNY JENKINS



Will you wear the grey oh narrow narrow

Will you wear the grey Jennie Jenkins I won't wear the grey for

its the color of the clay So buy me a Tally-wally aye sir.



Will you wear the black oh narrow narrow

Will you wear the black Jennie Jenkins

I won't wear the black for the color it is slack

So buy me a Tally-wally aye sir.



Will you wear the red oh narrow narrow

Will you wear the red Jennie Jenkins

l won't wear the red for the color I do dread

So buy me a Tally-wally aye sir.



Will you wear the green oh narrow narrow

Will you wear the green Jennie Jenkins

I won't wear the green for its the color that is mean

So buy me a Tally-wally aye sir.



Will you wear the white oh narrow narrow

Will you wear the white, Jennie Jenkins

I won't wear the white tis a color I dislike

So buy me a Tally-wally aye sir.



Will you wear the yellow, oh narrow narrow

Will you wear the yellow, Jennie Jerkins

I won't wear the yellow for the color it is shallow

So buy me a Tally-wally aye sir.



Will you wear the blue oh narrow narrow

Will you wear the blue, Jennie Jenkins

Yes I'll wear the blue for the color it is true

So buy me a Tally-wally aye sir.





From "Vermont Folksongs and Ballads" by Flanders

and Brown, the tune from the singing of Mrs.

Susan Chase in Bethel, Vermont the words copied

from the Green Mountain Songster, compiled by an

old Revolutionary soldier of Sandgate Vermont,

in 1823.



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Recorded by Margaret MacArthur

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