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LITTLE ROSEWOOD CASKET
[D] There’s a little [A7] Rosewood [D] casket
Resting on a [A7] marble [D] stand
With a packet [G] of love [D] letters
Written [A7] by my true love's [D] hand
Go and get them for me, sister
Come and read them o’er to me
For oft’ times I’ve tried to read them
But for tears I could not see
While I listen to you read them
I will gently fall asleep
Fall asleep to wake with Jesus
Oh, dear sister, do not weep.
When I'm dead and in my coffin
And my shroud's around me bound
And my narrow grave is ready
In the cold and silent ground
Take his letters and his locket
Place them gently on my heart
And the little ring he gave me
From my finger never part
The Little Rosewood Casket, often considered a folk song,
was written by White and Goullaud in 1870. By the time of
the earliest country recordings in the 1920's (Ernest
Thompson on Columbia 216- D as the Little Rosebud Casket)
it's authorship had been forgotten, the song having moved
into the folk tradition.