Bluegrass Messengers

Stands a Lady on the Mountain- (Sus) 1892 Husk

[From Notes and Queries,  8th series, p. 210. Reprinted Gomme, 1894.

Miss R. L. Husk posted a version from Shipley, Horsham (Sussex) in the 1892 Notes and Queries page 210. She commented:
"The sense, the rhythm, and the rhyme have obviously got considerably corrupted in both these specimens; but I give them exactly in the form children use and are amused by them."

R. Matteson 2017]


Stands a Lady on the Mountain- from Shipley, Horsham children collected by Miss Husk, 1892.

2. Stands a lady on the mountain,
    Who she is I do not know;
    All she wants is gold and silver,
    All she wants is a nice young beau.

    Take her by the lily-white hand,
    Lead her across the water;
    Give her kisses, one, two, three,
    For she is her mother's daughter.