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 I s my heartstring
    you is my destiny
And you rolls across my mind
    baby, each and every day

Little girl, little girl
    my life seem so misery
Hmm hmm-mmm, little girl
    my life seem so misery
Baby, I guess it must be love, now
    hoom-mmm, Lord, that's taking effect on me

Someday I will return
    with the marriage license in my hand
Someday I will return
    hoo hoo, with a marriage license in my hand
I'm gonna take you for a honeymoon
    in some long, long distant land