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GUEST,Rhiannon Origins: Sweet Blooming Lavender (36) Lyr Add: WON'T YOU BUY MY SWEET BLOOMING LAVENDER? 19 Jan 02

Thanks for all the replies, but none of them are the version I'm after. I have the version from Kennedy and a version collected by Sharp too:

Won't you buy my sweet blooming lavender,
Sixteen branches one penny
Ladies fair, make no delay
I have your lavender fresh today.
Buy it once, you'll buy it twice
It makes your clothes smell sweet and nice.
It will scent your pocket handkerchief
Sixteen branches for one penny
As I walked through London streets
I have your lavender nice and sweet
Sixteen branches for one penny.

(Mrs. Esther WIlliams, Hampstead, London 1908)

The version I'm after was sung with chorus and definitely had the line "Buy them for my succour, Sir", which doesn't appear in any of these versions.

Rhiannon

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