Sing Ivy- Charlie Potter (Sussex) 1956 Tony Wales
From: "We Wunt Be Druv," p. 54 by Tony Wales, 1976. Charlie Potter also sang this song in a recording made by Mervyn Plunkett at home in Horsham, Sussex, in September 1956. it was included in 1998 on the Topic anthology Troubles They Are But Few (The Voice of the People Series Volume 14).
R. Matteson 2018]
Sing Ivy- sung by Charlie Potter of Horsham, West Sussex, collected in 1956 by Wales.
My father he gave me an acre of ground
Sing ivy, sing ivy,
My father he gave me an acre of ground
Sing allegro, whistling ivy.
I ploughed it with a ram's horn,
I sowed it with some peppercorn,
I cut it with my pen knife,
I thrashed it with a rat's tail,
I carried it away on a mouse's back,
I measured it up by thimbleful
And money came back by sackfuls,