Quaker's Wooing- Adeline Langille (NS) 1928 Mackenzie
[From: Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia - page 380, by William Roy Mackenzie - 1928. His notes follow.
R. Matteson 2017]
I58 THE QUAKER'S WOOING. This antiphonic song, imported from England, has had wide currency in Canada and the United States. In Journal, XVIII, 53-56, Barry prints two versions from Massachusetts and refers to Newell's Games and Songs of American Children, 1884, pp.
"Quaker's Wooing." From the singing of a housemaid — Adeline Langille, of Marshville, Pictou County, before 1928.
1. "Madam, I have come a courting,
Mm, O dear!
Not for fun or idle sporting.
Mm, O dear!"
2 "You may sit and court the fire,
Teedle eedle ing ting tay!
A man like you I don't admire.
Teedle eedle ing ting tay ! "
3 "I've a ring and twenty shillings,
You may have them if you're willing."
4 "I don't want your ring and money,
I'll marry a man that'll call me honey."
5. I will change my religion,
I will be a Presbyterian."
6. Just like all you foolish Quakers
Always up to some capers."
7. "I'll go home to tell my daddy,
That you're not inclined to marry."
8. You and your dad may go to the Harry[1],
A man like you I'll never marry.
1. slang for "hell"