X:26
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Barry, JAF, XVIII (1905), p.213; text, pp. 50-51.  Sung by
O:Mrs S.A. Flint, Providence, R.I., 1904.
H:According to Barry (p. 213), Mrs Flint learned this song from
a man born about 1800.  The tune seems to shift from an anchorage
on G to one on F, after the mid cadence; that is, from Dorian to
F major.  Something has probably gone amiss.  Cf Joyce's tune
immediately following.
N:Child 2
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:Gdor % Inflected 7th
D | DGG GAG | FEF D3 |
w:I want you to make me a cam_bric shirt
DGG G2 ^F | GAB c2 A | GGG GAB |
w:Pars-ely and sage, rose-ma-ry and thyme, With-out an-y need_le
AGF E2 F | GGG ccc | BAG F2 |]
w:or any fine work, And then you shall be a true lov-er of mine.
W:
W:I want you to make me a cambric shirt
W:Parsely and sage, rosemary and thyme,
W:Without any needle or any fine work,
W:And then you shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go wash it out in yonder well
W:Where there's never no water nor drop of rain fell.
W:
W:Go hang it out on yonder thorn
W:Where there's never no blossom since Adam was born.
W:
W:Now, since you have asked me questions three
W:I pray you would grant me the same liberty.
W:
W:I want you to buy me an acre of land
W:Between the salt water and the sea sand.
W:
W:Go plough it all up with one cuckold's horn
W:Go sow it all down with one pepper corn.
W:
W:Go reap it all up with a sickle of leather
W:And bind it all up with one cock's feather.