I'm Seventeen Come Sunday- Overd (Som) 1904 Sharp
[From Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/9/555),
R. Matteson 2018]
Seventeen Come Sunday- sung by Emma Overd of Langport Somerset on December 22, 1904 collected by Cecil J. Sharp.
As I walked out one May morning,
One May morning so early,
I overtook a handsome maid,
Just as the sun was shining,
CHORUS[1]: With my ru, dum, aran, fol the diddle all,
Fol the diddle le- roh.
Her shoes was black and her stockings white,
And her buckles shone like silver,
She had a dark and a rolling eye,
And her hair hung down her shoulders.
How old are you my fair pretty miss,
How old are you my honey?
She answered me quite cheerfully,
I am seventeen come Sunday.
Where are you going, my fair pretty maid,
Where are you going, my honey?
She answered me quite cheerfully,
I'm an errand for my mammy.
I'll go walk with you my pretty fair maid,
I'll go walk with you my honey?
She answered me quite cheerfully,
I dare not for my mammy.
If you will come to my mammy's house,
When the moon is shining brightly,
And I'll come down and let you in,
And my mammy shall not hear me.
I went unto her mammy's house,
When the moon was shining brightly,
She did come down and let me in,
And her mammy did not hear me.
1. I've supplied her chorus from her MS - none was given