My Darling Boy- Henry Welsh (Dor) 1906 Hammond
[My title, replacing generic title. From Henry Hammond Manuscript Collection (HAM/4/28/25), notebook D.VII, p. 10.
R. Matteson 2018]
My Darling Boy (Lord Rendal)- sung by Henry Welsh of Wareham, Dorset in November, 1906. Collected by Hammond, H.E.D. "Villikins" tune.
What have you had for breakfast, my darling boy?
What have you had for breakfast, my comfort and joy?
Three lumps of cold poison, mother, make my bed soon
For I'm sick in the heart and I want to lie down.
What will you leave your sister, my darling boy?
What will you leave your sister, my comfort and joy
Two keys of my treasure, mother &c
What will you leave your wife?
I will leave her to the gallows and there she may ted (or tain?)
O! where will you be buried?
Down in yonder churchyard where the roses grow sweet,
Where I may lay down and take a long sleep.
With a stone at my head and a stone at my feet,
Where I may lay down and take a long sleep.