Prentice Lad- Robert Giles (Hamp) 1907 Gardiner
[Single stanza from: George Gardiner Manuscript Collection (GG/1/14/909) with music. http://www.vwml.org/record/GG/1/14/909
R. Matteson 2016]
The Prentice Lad- Robert Giles of Portsmouth Workhouse, Hampshire on 31 Aug 1907. Collected by G.B. Gardiner and John F. Guyer.
1. My parents all engaged me, good learning gave to me,
They bound me to a miller and that did with me agree,
Till at length I courted a pretty girl with a black and rolling eye,
I told her I would marry her if she would with me lie[1].
1. A sanitized ending is also given: I told her I would marry her and love her till I die