This is the version of this popular traditional poem, as written by Bonnie Parker, in a bank book (The First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas) with nine other poems, while she was in the Kaufman County Jail in 1932.



01:
In the city of wealth, beauty and fashion
Dear old Frisco, where I first saw the light
And the many frolics that I had there
Are still in my memory to night

02:
One evening while out for a ramble
Here or there without thought or design
I chanced on a girl tall and slender
On the corner of Kearney and Pine

03:
On her face was the first flush of nature
Her bright eyes seemed to expand
While her hair fell in rich brilliant manner
Was entwined with a ''blue velvet band''

04:
After lunch to a well kept apartment
She invited me with a sweet smile
And she seemed so refined, gay and charming
I thought I would linger awhile

05:
Then she shared with me a collection