Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

Rosie, Sweet Rosabel - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
ROSIE, SWEET ROSABEL. Copyright, 1893, by Geo. T. Worth & Co. Words and Music by Paul Dresser. 
There is a maiden, sweet Rosabel, the fairest of all that I know, All the beauties of heaven and the riches here below Cannot compare with this innocent angel of whom I shall tell, List to the tale of my first love, Sweet Rosabel. 
Chorus. Rosie, sweet Rosabel, I love her more than I can tell, O'er me she casts a spell, my charming black-eyed Sweet Rosabel. 
'Twas on a cold winter's evening I heard a faint cry at my door, Just a wail, just a something that I never heard before; There on the steps lay a baby, my heart at once seemed to swell, I took it in and I named it Sweet Rosabel.- Chorus. 
Often we speak of the incident, that cold winter's night long ago, When I first loved the baby, and oh, how it seemed to grow; I loved the child, then the little Miss. I then loved the woman as well, She gave her band, Boon I'll marry Sweet Rosabel.- Chorus.