Are You Tired Of Me My Darling?

“Are You Tired of Me, My Darling?” is a parlor/minstrel song with music by Fred Kenton Jones and lyrics by P. Gilsey Cook, published in 1877 and first performed as a minstrel number by Fred Walz of Sweatnam & Frazer’s Minstrels; it is not a bluegrass composition and predates the genre by decades. The earliest documented recording was by L. K. Reeder in 1925/1926, and Jimmie Davis and Buddy Jones released it as a single in 1935. The song is sometimes incorrectly attributed to A.P. Carter, likely due to the Carter Family’s role as conduits for older parlor material into country music. The Stanley Brothers recorded it for King Records, where it appeared on their In Person LP (c. 1961); Hot Rize covered it, crediting it as traditional, on Untold Stories (Sugar Hill, 1987); Jim & Jesse also recorded it, though their version surfaced as a bonus track on the CMH Records compilation The Jim & Jesse Story (2007) rather than on an original label album.