Volume 4, Number 6 - Winter 1971
ARKANSAS - Folk Song
(Words Sent by Eva B. Bruner)
They say there is a stream
Where the crystal waters flow
That’ll cure a man—if he’s sick or well
If he will but only go.
Chorus
We’re coming to Arkansas
We’re coming to Arkansas
The four-horse team will soon be seen
Way down in Arkansas.
Folks down there keep hounds
And hunting is all they kere
The women they sew, and hoe the corn
While the men shoot turkey and deer.
The people are old-time folks
Plain, honest, and true.
Wear homespun dresses and coperous pants
And coats of Indigo blue.
The girls are healthy and strong
Plain, modest and gay.
They card and spin, from morn till night
And dance from night till day.
They say Eurekie is rough
And you will find it so-
The ways of the people are wicked and tough
As away from the Springs we go
We’re leaving Arkansas
We’re leaving Arkansas
The four-horse team will never be seen
Way down in Arkansas.
Mrs. Bruner says "My father, Clarence John Hopper, sang this song so long as I can remember and I am nearly two years before sixty. His folks sang it from I know not when. I think he always sang it to F chord. Too, my father used to sing, "The Meanest Old Women in the World". Does any one know the words to that song?"
My Dad was born in Taney County, to Milford Hopper and Mary Louise Combs Hopper. Milford was one of the sons of Anderson Hopper and his wife Mary Fletcher Hopper. Mary Louise Combs was a daughter of Sterling Combs and wife, Sarah A. Stark Combs.
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