Yonder Sits- Frank Harrington (Hants) 1909 Gardiner

Yonder Sits- Frank Harrington (Hants) 1909 Gardiner

[George Gardiner Manuscript Collection (GG/1/20/1263). By the title it's assume there were other stanzas. It's sung in a similar repeated form as Greening version.

R. Matteson 2017]

Yonder Sits- sung by Frank Harrington of Bartley, Hampshire on 27 April, 1909.

Handsome men are out of fashion,
Ladies beauty soon decay.
Like a flower in the summer,
Soon will fade and die away,
Die away, die away,
Soon will fade and die away.