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I Ain’t Playing Pretty Polly
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Rhiannon Giddens
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When I was a young boy, my papaw played me songs He’d sing that Pretty Polly, and I’d listen all night long Those sounds went straight into my soul, sitting on his cabin floor But I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore When Granny was a young girl, she had to hold her own She told my little sister, don’t get with a man alone Down in the Willow Garden, wasn’t some old metaphor So I ain’t playing Willow Garden anymore I ain’t playing Pretty Polly or Rosalie McFall I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl, no, none of them at all No more tales of women killed by drunken violent men They don’t deserve their stories told, I won’t raisе my voice again I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore Causе I know some stories, men like my Uncle Clyde He spent seven decades at my Aunt Myrtle’s side Kentucky teens who fell in love in 1934 They had to leave the mountains to find work in Baltimore She tended their young family while he fought for them in the war And she still holds his picture and looks for him at the door Though she just turned 100 and he passed 12 years before So I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore I ain’t playing Pretty Polly or Rosalie McFall I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl, no, none of them at all No more tales of women killed by drunken violent men They don’t deserve their stories told, I won’t raise my voice again And I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
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