I Courted Her- Emma Overd (Som) 1904 Sharp MS
[My title, replacing Sharp's generic, Miller's Apprentice. Single stanza with music from Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/379)
R. Matteson 2016]
I Courted Her- Sung by Emma Overd of Langport, Somerset on Augusr 31, 1904. Collected by Cecil Sharp.
I courted her six long months
A little now and then;
I was ashamed for to marry her,
I bein' so young a man.