Peggy, Harmless Creature
Florence Shiflett
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Peggy, Peggy harmless creature Come set yourself all down by me. Tell, tell to me your plainly reason Why you been slighted so by thee. I lay my head on a keg of brandy It's my delight I really declare. Sometimes drinking but still a' thinking How I shall gain a true lover. Sometines drunk but seldom sober Sailing down in London Sea, I wish to the Lord I never had a' seen you Or in my cradle I had 'a died. |
This forlorn lyric is sung to the same haunting tune used in the Blue Ridge with "The Wayfaring Stranger" and "The Little Sparrow." I heard it first and never since from Florence Shiflett on Wyatt's Mountain in Bacon Hollow. She was in her mid-eighties and looked every bit the part of the old mountain woman. The combination of the song, the locale and the singer made a strong impact of the deepest melancholy one is likely to remember.
©1993 George Foss
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