Yonder Sits a pretty little creature- Charles Tanner (Oxf) 1916
[From WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 3 - Oxfordshire: Williams, A: MS collection No Ox 225; Also Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 22nd January, 1916, p 2, Part 15, No. 3.
R. Matteson 2017]
"Yonder sits a pretty little creature" sung by Charles Tanner of Bampton in County Oxfordshire published Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 22nd January, 1916, p 2, Part 15, No. 3. Collected by Alfred Williams.
Verse 1: Yonder sits a pretty little creature,
Who she is I do not know,
I'll go court her for her sweet favour,
Let her answer "Yes" or "No".
Chorus: With my twenty, eighteen, sixteen, fourteen,
Twelve, ten, eight, six, four, two, none;
Nineteen, seventeen, fifteen, thirteen,
Eleven, nine, seven, five, three, one.
Verse 2: "O madam, mind, I'm come a-courting,
If your favour I can gain,
If you make me kindly welcome,
Perhaps then I may come again?"
Chorus
Verse 3: "Sit you down, you're kindly welcome,
If your face I never see no more,
I must and I will have a handsome fellow,
Let him keep me, rich or poor."
Chorus
Verse 4: "Madam, don't think much of beauty,
Beauty's a flower that soon will fade,
The fairest flower that grows in summer,
Soon it'll die and fade away."