I’m Going to Georgia

1. I'm going to Georgia, 
   I'm going to roam;
I'm going to Georgia 
   to make it my home.

2. I once loved a young man 
   as dear as my life
And he oft-times did promise 
   to make me his wife.

3. The promise he fulfilled 
   and he made me his wife;
And you see what I've come to 
   by believing his lies.

4. Come all ye fair ladies, 
   take warning by me
Never cast your affections 
   on a green growing tree.

5. The leaves they may wither, 
   the flowers may die
Some young man may fool you 
   as one has fooled I.



This song was collected by Cecil Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell from Stella Shelton in Alleghany, NC on July 29, 1916 (Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, No. 78).