Seventeen Come Sunday- J.Keen (Sur) 1913 Keel
[From: "Songs from Surrey" by Frederick Keel, Frank Kidson, A. G. Gilchrist, H. E. D. Hammond and Lucy E. Broadwood
Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol. 6, No. 21 (Nov., 1918), pp. 1-28.
R. Matteson 2018]
SONGS FROM SURREY. COLLECTED BY FREDERICK KEEL.
ALL these songs from the neighbourhood of Haslemere, Surrey, were noted in company with Lieut. Iolo A. Williams of Hindhead, in 1913. 'He discovered the singers, and took down the Words from them first; we then visited them again together and I noted the tunes, while he noted any variations in the words. The singers were nearly all very old men-- J. Keen was 75.
4.- SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY.
SUNG BY -MR. JOHN KEENE, (FARMER), PIT FARM, TURSLEY, JAN. 9, 1913.
Noted by F. Keel.
1. "How old are you my sweet pretty maid,
How old are you my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully,
"I'm seventeen come Sunday.
CHORUS "With my roo dum da, fol de rid- dle a,
Oh right fall la did- dle i - do.
2 "Where are you going my sweet pretty maid?
Where are you going my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"With an errand to my mammy."
3 "Shall I go with my sweet pretty maid?
Shall I go with you my honev?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"I dare not for my mammy."
For other versions of this wide-spread song see Journal, Vol. i, p. 92; Vol. ii, pp. 9, and 269; Vol. iv, p. 2gI. Ford's Vagabond Songs ("My rolling Eye"). Folk-Songs from Somerset, VoL. ii, p. 4. A tune (with different words) is also found in Songs of the West with the title " On a May morning so early." The above tune differs from all these.-ED.
Cf. this tune with that sung to the game of " Roman Soldiers " (Journal, Vol. iv, pp. 67-75.-L. E. B.