Young Youth- Anon (Sus) c.1910 Clive Carey
[My location and date, none given on MS, my abbreviated title. Clive Carey Manuscript Collection (CC/1/353) Roud Folksong Index (S404951)- a bio from Folksinger's Workbook follows:
R. Matteson 2018]
Clive. Carey. (1883-1968). CLIVE CAREY ENTERED THE FOLK MOVEMENT as a collector of songs and dances in Sussex, Essex, and Oxfordshire. He assisted Mary Neal with her Esperance Morris Guild dance group, and sided with her in her bitter dispute with Cecil Sharp. In 1915, he published Ten English Folk Songs. After World War I, he became a celebrated opera singer and director, and subsequently professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London.
There came a young youth from the north lands- collected by Clive Carey, no info but collected in England probably Sussex about 1910.
There came a young youth from the north lands
And he came as it walking to me,
He said he would take me to the sea shore,
And there he would marry me, me, me,
And there he would marry me[1].
2. Go fetch me some of your father's gold,
And some of your mother's fee,
And two of the best two nags out of the stable,
Where they stand thirty and three, three, three,
Where they stand thirty and three.
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1. This is the standard Lord Lovel ending- this last line was left off the MS.