Blue-Eyed Mary

DESCRIPTION: "Come, tell me, blue-eyed stranger, Say, whither dost thou roam? O'er this wide world a ranger, Hast thou no friends or home?" "They called me blue-eyed Mary... I now am sorrow's child." He says he will buy her flowers. He says he will take her home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1857 (The American School Hymn Book, according to hymnary.org)
KEYWORDS: rambling flowers home marriage
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Driven-From-Home-Songster, p. 29, "Blue-Eyed Mary" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #161, p. 12, "Blue Ey'd Mary" (2 references)
Roud #37259
File: DFHS029A

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