A Female Farmer- Randall (Hants) 1907 Gardiner
[From Gardiner Collection (Vaughan Williams online). Gardiner didn't write out full text. He refers to the Wigg and Digweed versions. This is the first and third stanzas of Digweed's version.
R. Matteson 2016]
A Female[1] Farmer - Sung by Mrs. Randall of Preston Candover, Hampshire in October 1907. Collectors were G.B. Gardiner and Charles Gamblin.
A female[1] farmer, so I've been told,
He had two sons, one daughter dear
By a servant man was courted,
No one on earth she loved so dear.
They asked of him to go a-hunting.
To hunt he went without any care or strife,
These two brothers proved so cruel:
They took away that young man's life.
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1. Famous