X:22
T:Whittingham Fair
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Bruce and Stokoe, 1882, pp. 79-80.
N:Child 2
G:B
M:6/8
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w:Are you go-ing to Whitt-ing-ham fair, Pars_ley, sage_ rose-
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w: ma-ry, and thyme_ Re-mem-ber me to one who lives there* For once she was a true love_ of mine.
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W:Are you going to Whittingham fair,
W:Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
W:Remember me to one who lives there,
W:For once she (he) was a true love of mine.
W:
W:Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
W:Without any seam or needlework
W:
W:Tell her to wash it in yonder well
W:Where never spring water nor rain ever fell
W:
W:Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn
W:Which never bore blossom since Adam was born
W:
W:Now he has asked me questions three
W:I hope he will answer as many for me
W:
W:Tell him to find me an acre of land
W:Betwixt the salt water and the sea sand
W:
W:Tell him to plough it with a ram's horn
W:And sow it all over with one peppercorn
W:
W:Tell him to reap it with a sickle of leather
W:And bind it up with a peacock's feather
W:
W:When he has done and finished his work
W:O tell him to come and he'll have his shirt.