Lowlands of Holland- Graham (CA) 1938 Cowell REC
[From Library of Congress recording made in 1938.
R. Matteson 2015]
Lowlands of Holland- Sung by George Vinton Graham, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in 1938. Learned from his sister and brother when he was young- Graham thinks they may have got it from a print source (The Song King).
Listen: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/afc/afccc/audio/a381/a3812a2.mp3
I had just got into my bed,
I had not been asleep
When there came an old, old[1] captain
He stood at my bed-feet.
Saying, "Arise you jolly rover
Arise and go with me.
To the the lowlands of Holland
To fight with Germany.
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1. a noble captain?