Seventeen Come Sunday- Fred Atkinson (Linc) 1905 Grainger
[From Percy Grainger. Used for his British Folk Song Setting Nr. 8 tune-- words taken down from the singing of Mr. Fred Atkinson of Redbourne, Kirt on-Lindsey , Lincolnshire, Sept. 3, 1905, and freely set for mixed chorus and brass band (or concert brass). Copyright 1912. published by Schott.
This is the standard 'seventeen' broadside revision from c. 1840.
R. Matteson 2018]
SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY- from the singing of Mr. Fred Atkinson of Redbourne, Kirt on-Lindsey , Lincolnshire, Sept. 3, 1905
As I rose up one May morning,
One May morning so early,
I overtook a pretty, fair maid
Just as the sun was dawning
CHORUS: With my rue rum ray,
Fother diddle ay,
Wok fol air diddle i-do.
Her stockings white, and her boots were bright
And her buckling shone like silver;
She had a dark and a rolling eye
And her hair hung round her shoulder.
"Where are you going, my pretty, fair maid,
Where are you going, my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"I've an errand for my mummy."
"How old are you, my pretty, fair maid
How old are you, my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"I am seventeen come Sunday."
"Will you take a man, my sweet pretty maid
Will you take a man, my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"I darst not for my mummy."
"Will you come down to my mummy's house
When the moon is shining clearly?"
If you come down, I'll let you in
And me mummy shall not hear me."
I went down to her mummy's house
When the moon shone bright and clearly?
She did come down, and let me in
And I lay in her arms till morning.
"Oh, it's now I am with my soldier lad,
His ways they are so winning.
The drum and fife are my delight
And a pint o' rum in the morning."
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