X:41
T:Rose de Marian Time
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Brown MS. 16 a 12. Partial text, North Carolina Folklore, II,
O:1952, p. I4(B). Sung by Mrs. [Fannie] Norton, Norton, N.C.
H:Richard Chase, Old Songs end Singing Games, 1938, p. I8, gives
the same tune as from this singer, with a different, composite text.
It is also included, from Chase's singing, in the Winston Wilkinson
MSS., 1935-35, pp. T-2, with four more stanzas than the four below.
N:Child 2
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:C % Pentatonic ( -4 -7) Lydian/Ionian/Mixolydian [Pi 1]
c2 c2 c2 G2 | A2 E2 G4 |
w:As you go through yon-der town
A3 G A2 c2 | c6 z2 | C2 C2 C3 D |
w:Rose de Mar-ian Time! Take this dress to
E2 G2 EE E2 | CC A2 GG G2 | EE D2 C4 |]
w:that young la-dy And tell her she is a true lov-er of mine.
W:
W:As you go through yonder town
W:Rose de Marian Time!
W:Take this dress to that young lady
W:And tell her she is a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
W:Rose de Marian Time!
W:Without any seam or seamstress work
W:Then she'll be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Tell her to wash it in a dry well
W:Rose de Marian Time!
W:Where water never was nor rain never fell
W:Then she'll be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Tell her to dry it on a thorn
W:Rose de Marian Time!
W:Where leaf never was since Adam was born
W:Then she'll be a true lover of mine.