Single Girl

A working songbook entry preserved from repertoire, set-list, or reference evidence.

Status: potential/reference · unknown
Writer / source: Traditional Appalachian/old-time song
Rights: Public domain in the United States. Traditional arrangement by The Scrips.
Related Scrips recording: No Scrips recording linked yet.

Source research

Documented lineage

Earliest evidence: Early twentieth-century collected and commercial old-time versions
Aliases / index: Single Girl, Married Girl
Working arrangement: Key G · Capo 0

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Lyrics + source text

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Single Girl
Traditional Appalachian/old-time song
Rights: public-domain-us

Single girl, single girl, she's going dressed so fine;Oh she lives all alone and she thinks she'll change her mind.

Married girl, married girl, she wears a raggedy shawl;She drinks from an old tin cup but she ain't ashamed at all.

Single girl, single girl, she goes to the store;Gets as much as she can carry and then she goes back for more.

Married girl, married girl, she rocks the cradle and cries;Washes and irons and cooks and sews and wipes the baby's eyes.

Archive note

lyric/chord sheet present; listed as potential song; appears in setlist

Chords

G · C · D · Em