Seventeen Come Sunday- Potters (Sus) c.1960 Wales
[From Tony Wales, "We Wunt Be Druv: songs and stories from Sussex," p.38. Also Tony Wales Field Collection tape ST33
R. Matteson 2018]
Seventeen Come Sunday- sung by Mr. Charlie Potter and Mrs Potter of Horsham, Sussex, c. 1960
1. Where are you going my pretty maid,
Where are you going my honey?
The answer that she gave to me,
On an errand for my mummy.
With my rutum, turum, folly-tiddle- utum
Rifol tiddle diddle i-do.
2. How old are you my pretty maid,
How old are you my honey,
The answer that she gave to me,
I'm seventeen come Sunday.
3. Can you love me my pretty maid,
Can you love me my honey?
The answer that she gave to me,
I dare not for my mammy.
4. If you will come to my mummy's house,
The moon was shining clearly,
I sang beneath her window pane,
"Your soldier loves you dearly."
5. O soldier will you marry me?
For now's your time or never,
For if you do not marry me,
I am undone for ever.
6. and now she is the soldier wife,
And sails across the brine-o,
A drum and fife is my delight,
And merry man is mine-o.