The Boys Won’t Do to Trust
I own the boys are handsome
And sweet as sweet can be
I own I loved one dearly
And aren’t you just like me?
(chorus)
No, they won’t do to trust
No, they won’t do t o trust
I tell you girls I know them
And the boys won’t do to trust.
They’ll do to buy cheap whisky
And then get on a drunk
I’ll tell you girls I know them
And the boys won’t do to trust.
And you may start and wonder
And ask me in surprise
Why a girl so young as I am
Would chance to be so wise.
I hate I hate to tell you
But then suppose I must
I’ve learned from sad experience
That the boys won’t do to trust.
(Edith Walker, Boone, North Carolina)