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I'm Going to Get Married Next Sunday
This belongs to the tradition of English milkmaid songs, but is
not often found in collections. It is known in Vermont (NGMS
225-6), Tennessee (SharpK 11 189, with notation that it is to be
found in Joyce's Ancient Irish Miisic, p. 14, and Sharp's Folk
Songs from Somerset No. 3 and One Hundred English Folk Songs,
p. 88), and Wisconsin (JAFL lii 34-5, from Kentucky) ; and it is
No. 48 in Barry's list of songs known in the North Atlantic States.
'I'm Going to Get Married Next Sunday.' Reported by Obadiah John-
son of Crossnore, Avery county, in 1940. "He did not sing it ; he
does not know the air."
1 Good morning, good morning, good morning in spring.
I spied a fair damsel so sweetly did sing,
Sitting under a cow milking,
'I'm going to get married next Sunday.
2 'My shawl and my mantle lie up in the press ;
My true love will be here before I am dressed.
Now it's my mind I intend to fulfill ;
I'm going to get married next Sunday.
3 'Next Saturday morning will take all my care
To fold up my ribbons and comb out my hair.
Now it's my mind I intend to fuUfiU ;
I'm going to get married next Sunday.
4 'Next Monday morning I'll flight up in town
With a bunch of blue ribbons and a new-fashioned gown.
There I'll invite all the ladies in town
To dine at my wedding next Sunday.'