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1570
only saurce Por a Pulí version of this song whic}i recalís a well—
known German dialect £olk song. An emended text vas printed in
Foflc Songs from Somerset, III, 1906, and in English Polk Songs
selected Edition, 1921, Vol. 1, with the £ollowiflg note: ‘The words
given me by the singer vere a little too bree and uncoiwentional
to be published without emendation, but the necessary alteiYatiOfls
have, nevertheless, been ver>’ few and unimportant’. A three—staflza
nurser>’ version in tlie Oxford Dictionai’y of Nursery Rhymes (1951)
is there stated to have a ms. original dated 1740.”
La canción recolectada por Cecil Sbarp se recoge en CE, núm. 69,
tomo 1, pág. 72, dice así:
O rnother, 1 long to get married,
1 long to be a bride.
1 long to he by that young man,
And close to by Ms side,
Clase to by lis side
O happy should 1 be,
For Vm young and merry and almost weary
02 ni>’ virginity.
O daugliter, 1 vas twenty
Before that 1 vas woo’d
And many a long and lonesome mile
1 carried my niaidenhood.
O motíer, that ma>’ be:
But it’s not tlie case by me,
Por I’m young and meri’y axid almost weary
Of my virginity.