- Betty Mae, Betty Mae,
You shall be my wife someday.
Betty Mae, Betty Mae,
You shall be my wife someday.
I wants a little sweet girl,
That will do anything, that I say.
Betty Mae, you is my heartstring,
You is my destiny.
Betty Mae, you is my heartstring,
You is my destiny.
And you rolls across my min',
Baby, each and ev'ry day.
Li'l girl, li'l girl,
My life seem so misery.
Hmm, hmm, little girl,
My life seem so misery.
Baby, I guess it must be love, now,
Hoo, mm, Lord that's takin' effect on me.
Some day I will return,
With the marriage license in my hand.
Some day I will return,
Hoohoo, with a marriage license in my hand.
I'm gon' take you for a honeymoon,
In some long, long distant land.