Where Are You Going? B. Wallace (Corn) c.1929 Carpenter
[Fragment from Carpenter Collection. Probably 3rd revision version, too short to positively identify.
R. Matteson 2018]
Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid?- sung by Bessie Wallace of Union Street, Camborne, Cornwall, learned from her grandfather.
Where are you going to, my fair pretty maid,
Where are you going to, my honey?
She answered me quite cheerfully,
Going for treache[1] for my mommie.
CHORUS: To my whack-fal-lay diddy-fal-lay
To my whack-fal-lay fal-li-do.
How old are you, my fair pretty maid,
How old are you, my honey?
She answered me quite modestly,
I am seventeen come Sunday.
Then will you have me, my fair pretty maid
Will you have me, my honey?
She answered me quite bashfully,
I will go and ask my mammy.
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