Jenny Flow Gentle Rosemary- Lyons (MA) 1937 Ring Bronson 20
[From Folk-Songs, Ballads and Songs of Great Composers, Set IV, 1937. Compare this to Child F, the Mass. version, and also to Davis AA, a New England version collected in Va.]
"Jenny Flow Gentle Rosemary"- Mrs. Mike Lyons (Lee, MA) 1937 Ring
1. Sweet William went on a hoeing ride:
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
All for to get him a gallant young bride,
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
2 She would not into the kitchen come:
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
For fear of spoiling her cork heel shoes.
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
3 She would not card, she would not spin,
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
For fear of spoiling her cork heel shoes.
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
4. Sweet William he came in from plow:
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
"Oh my dear wife, is my dinner ready now?"
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
5. She call'd Sweet William a country whelp: [1]
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
"If you want any dinner you can get it yourself!"
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
6. Sweet William went in the sheep fold:
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
From the fattest the skin he roll'd.
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
7. Carried it in; put it on his wife's back:
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
With a good stick he went whickety-whack.
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
8. "I'll tell my father and all my kin"
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
"That you whipp'd my back with a wether-skin."
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
9. "You can tell your father and your my kin"
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
"That I whipp'd your back with a wether-skin."
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
10. Sweet William he came in from plow:
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
"Oh my dear wife, is my dinner ready nowl"
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
11. She out with the table and spread the board:
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
"Oh my dear husband, never a word!"
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)
12. Afrer this, she made a good wife,
(Jenny, flow gentle rosemary.)
If you want any more you can sing it yourself,
(As the dew falls over the white rosie.)