Bluegrass Messengers

Yonder Sits a pretty little creature- Charles Tanner (Oxf) 1916

[From WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 3 - Oxfordshire: Williams, A: MS collection No Ox 225; Also  Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 22nd January, 1916, p 2, Part 15, No. 3.

R. Matteson 2017]

"Yonder sits a pretty little creature" sung by Charles Tanner of Bampton in County Oxfordshire published Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 22nd January, 1916, p 2, Part 15, No. 3. Collected by Alfred Williams.

Verse 1: Yonder sits a pretty little creature,
Who she is I do not know,
I'll go court her for her sweet favour,
Let her answer "Yes" or "No".

Chorus: With my twenty, eighteen, sixteen, fourteen,
Twelve, ten, eight, six, four, two, none;
Nineteen, seventeen, fifteen, thirteen,
Eleven, nine, seven, five, three, one.

Verse 2: "O madam, mind, I'm come a-courting,
If your favour I can gain,
If you make me kindly welcome,
Perhaps then I may come again?"

Chorus

Verse 3: "Sit you down, you're kindly welcome,
If your face I never see no more,
I must and I will have a handsome fellow,
Let him keep me, rich or poor."

Chorus

Verse 4: "Madam, don't think much of beauty,
Beauty's a flower that soon will fade,
The fairest flower that grows in summer,
Soon it'll die and fade away."