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作曲 : Robert Jay Horton |
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My name, it is Joe Bowers. |
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I got a brother, Ike; |
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I came from old Missouri, |
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Yes, all the way from Pike. |
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I'll tell you why I left there, |
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And how I came to roam, |
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To leave my poor old Mammy |
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So far away from home. |
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I used to love a girl there; |
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They call her Sally Black. |
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I asked her for to marry me; |
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She said it was a whack. |
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Says she to me, "Joe Bowers, |
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Before we hitch for life, |
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You'd ought to have a little home, |
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To keep your little wife." |
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Says I, "My dearest Sally-- |
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Oh, Sally, for your sake, |
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I'll go to California |
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And try to raise a stake." |
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Says she to me, "Joe Bowers, |
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Oh, ou are the chap to win, |
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So give me a kiss to seal the bargain," |
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And I throwed a dozen in. |
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I'll never forget my feelings |
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When I bid adieu to all. |
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Sally, she catched me around the neck, |
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And I began to bawl. |
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When I set in, they all commenced-- |
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You've never heard the like, |
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The way they all took on and cried |
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The day I left old Pike. |
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When I got to this here country, |
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I hadn't nary a red. |
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I had such wolfish feelings, |
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I wished myself most dead. |
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But the thoughts of my dear Sally |
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Soon made them feelings get, |
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And whispered hopes to Bowers, |
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"Lord, I wish I had them yet." |
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Then I went to a-mining |
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Put in my biggest licks, |
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Came down upon the boulders |
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Just like ten thousand bricks; |
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I worked both late and early |
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In rain and sun and snow, |
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I was working for my Sally, |
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But it was all the same to Joe. |
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I made a very lucky strike, |
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As the gold itself did tell, |
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And saved for my Sally, |
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The girl I loved so well. |
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I saved it for my Sally |
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That I might ported at her feet |
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That she might kiss and hug me |
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And call me something sweet |
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But one day I got a letter |
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From my dear, kind brother Ike. |
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It came from old Missouri, |
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Yes, all the way from Pike. |
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It told me the goldarndest news |
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That ever you did hear. |
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My heart is amost a-bursting, |
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So pray excuse this tear. |
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It said my Sally was fickle. |
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Her love for me had fled, |
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That she had married with a butcher |
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Whose hair was awful red. |
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It told me more than that |
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It's enough to make one swear |
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Said Sally had a baby, |
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And the baby had red hair. |
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Now, I’ve told you all I could tell you about this sad affair, |
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About Sally married a butcher |
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and the butcher had red hair, |
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Whether it was a boy or gal child |
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The letter never said, |
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It only says that cursed hair |
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was inquired to be red. |
