There Is An Ale-House: William Clark (Linc) 1906 Grainger
[From: Percy Grainger Manuscript Collection (PG/5/150).
R. Matteson 2017]
There Is An Ale-House In Yonders Town- sung by William Clark, of Barrow-on-Humber Lincolnshire, on August 3, 1906. Collected by Percy Grainger.
1.There is an alehouse in yonders town
Where my love goes and sits him down[1].
He takes another girl on his knee,
And don’t you think that’s a grief to me!
2. My grief is more than I can bear
I'm disregarded everywhere;
Where'er i go wherever I be,
He tries to shun my company.
3. My grief is great, I'll tell you why,
Because she's got more gold than I,
Her gold may fade and her beauty blast,
She'll become a poor girl like me at last.
4. I wish my baby it was born
Sit smilin' on it's father's knee,
And I was dead and in my grave,
And green grass growing over me.
1. On July 26, 1906 Clark sang: There is an alehouse in our town
Where men loves to drink the ale that's brown.