Sixteen Agin' Sunday- Urquhart (Scot) 1906 RVW
[My title, replacing generic SCS title. Fragment from Songs Collected from Sussex by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil J. Sharp, G. S. K. Butterworth, Frank Kidson, A. G. Gilchrist and Lucy E. Broadwood from Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol. 4, No. 17 (Jan., 1913), pp. 279-324. Williams note follows
R. Matteson 2018]
I have noted the following Scottish version.
Sixteen Agin' Sunday-- SUNG BY MR. URQUHART (NATIVE OF SCOTLAND), Noted by R. Vaughan Williams. AT HOWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND, JULY 28TH, I906.
1. "Where are ye goin' my bonny lass,
Where are ye goin' my henny,
Where are ye goin' my bonny lass."
"An erran' for my mammy."
Rum-lin-ti -uin - fol-e do-a-day,
rum-ln-tum-lin - ti-dy,
Rum -lin- tum -lin fol-e- do-a-day.
"An er -ran' for my mam my."
2. "What age are you my bonny lass,
What age are you my henny,
What age are you my bonny lass?"
"I'll be sixteen agin' Sunday."
Rumlin, etc.
[repeat last line]