On The Mountain Stands a Lady- Joan (Liv) c.1945
[From: "Childhood Memories of Huyton." Huyton is a borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, Liverpoool, county Lancashire (?). Read pdf at http://www.knowsley.gov.uk/pdf/Part%20three.pdf "Childhood Memories of Huyton."
R. Mattesopn 2017]
Games we used to play[1]. Some of the Skipping songs
My uncle gave us a ships rope to skip with and when we used to get home it looked like we had been whipped on the back of our legs. Sometimes we would sneak our Mams washing line out and go to the hard bit in Jubilee Park.
On The Mountain
On a mountain stands a lady,
Who she is I do not know,
All she wants is gold and silver
All she wants is a nice young man,
So I call in my very best friend[2],
Then spell her name and then say,
While I go out to play.
1. it's unclear who the narrator is. The last name given was Joan.
2. a line is missing in this stanza