Every Grove is Merry in Time- (NE) 1915 Pound
[Pound's title from her Nebraska and Central West Folk Songs, a Syllabus printed in 1915. I'm not sure why this version was not published in Pound's 1922 book.
R. Matteson Jr. 2014]
10. [Every Grove is Merry in Time] (The Elfin Knight, Child 2).—Part I. A young man tells a maid how to make a shirt. She must buy a yard of tow cloth, sew it without any seam, etc.
Tell this young maid When she's done all this,
Every grove that's merry in time,
To come unto me and I'll give her a kiss,
And she shall be a true lover of mine.
Part II. The maid tells the young man to buy an acre of land, plough it with a cow's horn, plant it with peppercorn; then she gives directions how to reap, thresh, etc.
Tell this young man when he's finished his work,
Every grove that's merry in time,
To come unto me and I'll give him his shirt,
And he shall be a true lover of mine.