Went Downtown- Children (Belfast) 2003 Lanclos
[My title. From: "At Play in Belfast: Children's Folklore and Identities in Northern Ireland" by Donna M. Lanclos, 2003. In Ireland a different introductory stanza was sometimes sung:
R. Matteson 2017]
Went downtown and met Miz Brown
She gave me a nickel so I bought a pickle
The pickle was sour so I got a flower
The flower wouldn't smell so I bought a bell
The bell wouldn't ring, so I began to sing:
"On the mountain stands a lady,
Who she is I do not know;
All she wants is gold and silver,
All she wants is a nice young man.