There Was A Farmer- Cole (Hants) c.1908 Gardiner
[My date, none given. Fragment from the Gardiner Collection (Vaughan Williams online). it is title a generic, Bruton Town, on one page.
R. Matteson 2016]
There Was A Farmer Lived Near Bridgewater - Sung by Jesse Cole of Oakley, Hampshire. (H. 1285)Collected by G.B. Gardiner, Charles Gamblin,
1. There was a farmer lived near Bridgewater
He had two sons and one daughter dear,
And they thought [it] fitting to plough the ocean
To plough the raging main so clear.
2. And through the woods as we was riding
And there we lost and never found
In seeking of it over fluttered [flattered],
In a brake of briars he was killed and thrown.
3. "Now a servant man's going to wed our sister,
Our sister for it is all in vain,
Yes, and their courtship shall soon be ended,
I'll send him to his silent grave."