Stands a Lady on the Mountain- (Sus) 1892 Husk
[From Notes and Queries, 8th series, p. 210. Reprinted Gomme, 1894.
Miss R. L. Husk posted a version from Shipley, Horsham (Sussex) in the 1892 Notes and Queries page 210. She commented:
"The sense, the rhythm, and the rhyme have obviously got considerably corrupted in both these specimens; but I give them exactly in the form children use and are amused by them."
R. Matteson 2017]
Stands a Lady on the Mountain- from Shipley, Horsham children collected by Miss Husk, 1892.
2. Stands a lady on the mountain,
Who she is I do not know;
All she wants is gold and silver,
All she wants is a nice young beau.
Take her by the lily-white hand,
Lead her across the water;
Give her kisses, one, two, three,
For she is her mother's daughter.