Part 19 (2/2)

Traditional

I

Stepping up the green gra.s.s Thus and thus and thus; Will you let one of your fair maids Come and play with us.

We will give you pots and pans, We will give you bra.s.s; We will give you anything For a pretty la.s.s.

We won't take your pots and pans, We won't take your bra.s.s, We won't take your ”anything For a pretty la.s.s.”

We will give you gold and silver, We will give you pearl; We will give you anything For a pretty girl.

Come, my dearest Mary, Come and play with us; You shall have a young man Born for your sake.

And the bells shall ring, And the cats shall sing, And we'll all clap hands together.

II

Sally made a pudden, Shoo made it ower sweet; Shoo dursn't stick a knife in 't, Till Jack cam home at neet.

John, wilta have a bit like?

Don't say nay, For last Monday mornin'

Was aar weddin'-day.

III

Sally Water, Sally Water, Come sprinkle your can, Why do you lie mournin'

All for a young man?

Come, choose o' the wisest, Come, choose o' the best, Come, choose o' the young men The one you love best.

IV

Diller a dollar, A ten o' clock scholar, What maks you coom sae soon?

You used to coom at ten o'clock, Bud noo you coom at noon.

1. From S. O. Addy, A Sheffield Glossary, p. 239; current in other parts of England.

Hagmana Song(1)

Fragment of the Hagmana Song!

(As sung at Richmond, Yorks.h.i.+re, on the eve of the New Year, by the' Corporation Pinder.)

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