There Stands a Lady- children (Kent) 1894 Kimball, Gomme E
[My title. From Dictionary of British Folk-lore, Volume 1, edited by G. Laurence Gomme, 1894 collected by Miss D. Kimball. Instructions are provided in the Lucy Broadwood Manuscript Collection (LEB/5/231)
R. Matteson 2017]
[Childfren form a ring and dance around those who stand in the middle]
V. There stands a lady on a mountain,
Who she is I do not know;
All she wants is gold and silver,
All she wants is a nice young man.
[Child in the middle now selects a partner from the ring who joins her. The others dance around her saying,]
Now she's married I wish her joy,
First a girl and then a boy;
Seven years after son and daughter,
Pray young couple kiss together.
Kiss her once, kiss her twice,
Kiss her three times three.
[The first child then joins the ring leaving the second child to become in her thru the Lady on the mountain]
—Wrotham, Kent (Miss D. Kimball).