Trish Lester

Lyrics

Johnny Be Fair
Buffy Sainte-Marie
ALMO MUSIC CORP. OBO GYPSY BOY MUSIC, INC. HFA Song Code: J43280

Well, Johnny be fair and Johnny be fine and wants me for to wed
And I would marry Johnny, but m’ father up and said
I hate to tell you daughter what your mother never knew
But Johnny is a son of mine and so he’s kin to you

Well, Jimmy be fair and Jimmy be fine and wants me for to wed
And I would marry Jimmy, but m’ father up and said
I hate to tell you daughter what your mother never knew
But Jimmy, too, is a son of mine and so he’s kin to you

Well, Billy be fair and Billy be fine and wants me for to wed
And I would marry Billy, but m’ father up and said
I hate to tell you daughter what your mother never knew
But Billy, too, is a son of mine and so he’s kin to you

Now, you never saw a girl so sad and sorry as I was
I’m kin to all the boys in town and m’ father is the cause
If life should thus continue I shall die a single miss
And so I’ll go to mother and complain of all of this

So, haven’t I told you, daughter, to forgive and to forget?
Your father may have sewn his oats, but still you needn’t fret
He may have been the father of all the boys in town, and still
He’s not the one who sired you, so marry whom you will.