Seventeen Come Sunday- Freda Black (Hamp) 2012
[From: Song Collectors Collective website (http://songcollectorscollective.co.uk/)
https://soundcloud.com/song-collectors/freda-black-how-old-are-you-my?in=song-collectors/sets/freda-black-
R. Matteson 2018]
Seventeen Come Sunday (How Old Are You, My Fair Pretty Maid?) sung by Freda Black of Headley, Hampshire in August 2012, collected by Sam lee.
How old are you, my fair pretty maid?
how old are you, my honey?
for she had a dark and her roaming eyes
and her hair hung over her shoulders
with a roo-die-day-for-the-diddle-day-right-from-chicka-lairy
How old are you, my fair pretty maid?
how old are you, my honey?
I am seventeen come next Sunday
but you dare not let my mother know
with a roo-die-day-for-the-diddle-day-right-from-chicka-lairy
Now her shoes are bright
and her buckle shines like silver
yes, she had a dark and a roaming eye
and I dare not let my mother know
with a roo-die-day-for-the-diddle-day-right-from-chicka-lairy