662 Come All Ye Young Ladies
'Come All Ye Young Ladies.' Sung by Mrs. James York, Boone, Watauga county, August 8, 1940. Contributed by Dr. Amos Abrams. Another title: 'Time Enough Yet.' Our stanza is the last stanza in OFS iii 75-6 version B. Cf. also JAFL xxxix 182-3; BSM 197-8; JAFL lix 468.
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Come all ye young la - dies while sweet-hearts are plen - ty, Be
you'll always regret
The time you fore - said was time e - nough yet.'
Time e - nough yet, time e - nough yet,
The time you fore - said 'time e - nough yet.'
For melodic relationship cf. **CRS Kit 48, 16, our initial four measures
and the refrain given there; *OFS in 75, No. 369.
Scale: Pentachordal. Tonal Center: c. Structure: aaia2 (4,4,4); the only
change in the three phrases consists in the variation of the first measure in
the second and third phrases. The tonal center is the lowest tone.