662. Come All Ye Young Ladies

662 Come All Ye Young Ladies

'Come All Ye Young Ladies.' Sung by Mrs. James York, Boone, Watauga  county, August 8, 1940. Contributed by Dr. Amos Abrams. Another title:  'Time Enough Yet.' Our stanza is the last stanza in OFS iii 75-6 version  B. Cf. also JAFL xxxix 182-3; BSM 197-8; JAFL lix 468.

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Come all ye young la - dies while sweet-hearts are plen - ty, Be

you'll always regret
The time you fore - said was time e - nough yet.'

Time e - nough yet, time e - nough yet,


 The time you fore - said 'time e - nough yet.'

 

For melodic relationship cf. **CRS Kit 48, 16, our initial four measures
and the refrain given there; *OFS in 75, No. 369.

Scale: Pentachordal. Tonal Center: c. Structure: aaia2 (4,4,4); the only
change in the three phrases consists in the variation of the first measure in
the second and third phrases. The tonal center is the lowest tone.