Young Bateman- Clapp (NY) 1917 Sharp MS
[My title. From Bronson No. 46, Sharp MS 4156, single stanza with music. Bronson comments: This copy is surprisingly chromatic and hard to classify modally.
R. Matteson 2014]
Young Bateman- Sung by Mrs. Margaret Clapp, New York, NY; November 16, 1917. Learned from her mother who learned it from her mother in Dundee, Scotland.
He gied the table such a kick
That it gar'd the cups and the cannels flee
I wad my life cried Young Bateman
It is Susie Pye come o'er the sea.