Peggy Gordon


Information:
  • Peggy Gordon appeared on the Home album. It is one of the traditional songs that was taken from their mother Jean's handwritten book of songs. Gerry and Jean performed those songs in their duo 'Sound Affair'.
     
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  • Peggy Gordon is a Canadian folk song telling the story of a man who is madly in love with a woman and how he longs to be with her. Versions of the song, in the form of a vaudeville song, were published in New York as early as 1880. The song became gained popularity in many English-speaking countries starting in the 1950s and 1960s.
     


Lyrics:
O Peggy Gordon, You are my darling
Come sit you down upon my knee
And tell to me the very reason
Why I am slighted so by thee

I'm so in love that I can't deny it
My heart lies smothered in my breast
But it's not for you to let the world know it
A troubled mind can know no rest

I put my head to a glass of brandy
It was my fancy, I do declare
For when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
And wishing Peggy Gordon was here

I wish I was in some lonesome valley
Where womankind cannot be found
Where little birds sing upon the branches
And every moment has a different sound

O Peggy Gordon, You are my darling
Come sit you down upon my knee
And tell to me the very reason


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