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1 been toid by a prophet, 1 been told by my mother,
Going into a vedding it would soo» bring cxi another;
And iB 1 thought so 1 vould go w±thout bedding,
For you knov in ruy heart 1 long to be vedding.
There is ruy sister Syl, she is younger than 1 am,
Before ahe was flEteen far a bride she vas taken,
Before she vas sixteen she liad a son axid a daugliter,
Here am 1 forty.-five and never got the ofLer.
Come fiddler, come bifer, come brever, come veaver,
Black—man or rag—man, £oolish ox’ witty,
Don’t íet me die a maid, come axid marry me Lor pity.
Neither fiddler, nor fifer, flor trever, flor veaver,
Black—man ox’ raqwnan, £oolish or vitty,
Tul an oíd chinmney—sveep come and married her fox’ pity.
Ob now he has got her he rifles her charnis,
She lays dom quite mournful in bis black sooty arrus,
Oh nov he has got her he swears he vilí keep her
Whule she rolís in the amis of a biack chumney—sveepei’.
1561
Tami Wismer, estudiante de unos 26 aNos en el Folklore and Mythol—
ogy Department de la Universidad de California, tICLA, cant6 una ver—
ui6n muy parecida a La ya transcrita