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Jean Ritchie's lyrics:
Pretty Betty Martin, tip toe, tip toe
Pretty Betty Martin, tip toe, fine.
Little boys, big boys, up and down the holler,
Pretty Betty Martin, got 'em all cryin'.
Chorus:
Pretty Betty Martin, tip toe, tip toe
Pretty Betty Martin, tip toe, fine.
Pretty Betty Martin, tip toe, tip toe
Put on a red dress and say you're mine.
First time I saw my pretty little Betty,
I thought that girl could tip toe fine.
Next time I saw Betty,
Stand back boys this one's mine.
Chorus
Swing that gal up and down the holler,
Swing that gal and pat her on the head.
Swing her up on her tippy tippy tiptoe,
She don't like biscuits she likes cornbread.
Chorus
from The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion (1842)
Hey, Betty Martin, tip-toe, tip-toe,
Hey, Betty Martin, tip-toe fine:
Can't get a husband to please her, please her.
Can't get a husband to please her mind.
Chorus
from King's Sketches of Pitt County: a brief history of the county, 1704-1910
Hey, Betty Martin, tip-toe, tip-toe,
Hey, Betty Martin, tip-toe fine:
She couldn't get a shoe, she couldn't get a stocking,
Couldn't get a husband to please her mind.
Chorus
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