There's a Lady On the Mountain- (Nor) 1975 Opie D
[From Children's games with things: marbles, fivestones, throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and Pitching, Ball-Bouncing, Skipping, Tops and Tipcat by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie - 1997.
R. Matteson 2017]
There's 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 man.
So call in Jamie Seymour.
How many kisses did she give him? (Wereham, Norfolk, 1975)
The distinctive tune became familiar to viewers of light comedy when it was adopted as the theme music for the BBC television series about Merseyside The Liver Birds. Britain: London, 1910, Leeds, c. 1925, Northumberland, c. 1935, from sixty-five places since 1950