Well, this one here just goes to show you what it was all about.
Even back in the old days, it was not an everyday occurrence, but the ladies and the lords,
sometimes they didn't get along.
And this describes what sometimes happened.
And I don't think that the lords and the earls and the dukes and them allowed the common
ordinary working servant people, I don't think they allowed them to sing these songs out
in public as we know the public today.
I think we had to kind of keep it, run it kind of cool, as we would say of this year
and age.
But this is supposed to have been based on a happening.
I don't know that it was, because I wasn't around at that time.
But I'm going to believe the old folk are kind of halfway told the truth about it.
A black Jack David rode over the plains till he charmed the heart of a lady, charmed the
heart of a lady.
Now go put on the high-heeled boots made of Spanish leather, swear by the sword that hangs
to my side that you never want for money, never will want for money.
She went and put on the high-heeled boots made of Spanish leather, he took her by the
lily white hand and off they rode together, off they rode together.
That very night the landlord came in inquiring of the lady, and all that the butler said
to him, she's gone, the black Jack David, gone, the black Jack David.
Oh go saddle up my dappled grave, my soul is not so amazing, I'll ride all night and
I'll ride all day until I overtake my lady, overtake my lady.
They said he rode all night and he rode all day, early on the next morning, and he rode
down by that muddy riverside and there he spied his lady, there he spied his lady.
Saying have you forsaken your house and your home, have you forsaken your babies, have
you forsaken your own true love to go with the black Jack David, to go with the black
Jack David.
Oh yes I've forsaken my house and my home, I've forsaken my babies, but I've not forsaken
my own true love, for I love the black Jack David, I'll stay with the black Jack David.
It was fair next day when the lady taken sick and the Indians yelling around her, it was
fair next day when the lady lay a corpse and the soldiers marching over her, and the soldiers
marching over her.