There Stands a Lady- (Sur) 1894 Gomme A
[My title. From: Dictionary of British Folk-lore, Volume 1 edited by G. Laurence Gomme, 1894 collected by his wife, Alice Bertha Gomme.
R. Matteson 2017]
I. There 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 man.
Choose one, choose two,
choose the fairest one of the two.
The fairest one that I can see,
Is pretty, walk with me.
—Barnes, Surrey (A. B. Gomme).