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X: 1
T: Brisk Young Sailor
S: Mr John Collett at The Bank, Stanton, Glos. Collected by Percy Grainger 17 Nov 1907.
Z: Transcribed by Barry Pearce, 09 June 2015.
Z:Checked by Gwilym Davies 28 June 2015
r: ballad, marriage, suitable for children, courtship, church, borken token
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: C
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w:1.~~A fair maid was a-w-alkin' the gar--din, a brisk young sai--lor she chanced to
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w:spy; he stepped up to her think-in' to vi-ew her, he said: "Fair mai-d, can you fan-cy I?"
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w:2.'You ap-pear to me like some man of hon-or, some man of hon--or you seem to
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w:be; how could you im-po-se on a poor young wo--man who is not fittin' y-our ser-vant to be?
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w:3."If you're not fit to be my ser-vant, I have a goo-d re-gard for thee; I'll mar-ry
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w:you & make you my la--dy, I have got ser--vants to wait on thee".
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w:6.And when he found that his love w-as loy-al he says: "It's a pi-ty love should be crossed. I am thy
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w:po-or & sin-gle sai--lor; man-y a ti-me the wide o-cean crossed"
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w:7.He p-ulled his hand out of his bos-om, his fin-gers be-in' both long & small; show-in' her the
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w:ring that they broke be-twixt them, & when she saw it do-wn she did fall
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w:po-or & sin-gle sai--lor, I'm just re-tur-ned for to mar-ry thee".
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w:9.Now to the church they went to-ge-ther, & they got mar-ried there with
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w:joy. And they got mar-ried joined to each o--ther, so there's an e-nd of my sai-lor boy
N: Percy Grainger Manuscript Collection (PG/5/225).
N: Tune and lyrics http://www.vwml.org/record/PG/5/225'
N: Percy writes "2nd version" below the title implying he also collected this from another
N: singer at the same location/date.
N: Verse 5 has no music specified - verse 4's music was used.
N: The 3/4 time signature of the final line was not specified in the MS but is derived from the music.
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