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Posted By: davidharley
28-Feb-24 - 07:43 AM
Thread Name: ADD: A Young Virgin (song about suitors)
Subject: This young virgin (song about suitors)
Many years ago I heard Peggy Seeger sing a song for which I remember the tune but hardly any of the words. (I don't promise that I've remembered those absolutely perfectly.)
As it popped into my head as today's earworm, I'd be grateful for any information and the full lyric, as the internet has so far failed me completely. If I remember correctly, the first lines were:
'This young virgin, you understand / took a trip to a foreign land'
She then receives offers of marriage from various blokes, introduced as: 'The first/next/last was a [occupation] that came in / he told what a traveller he had been...'
The only occupation I remember for sure, though, is a fiddler: '...he tuned his fiddle and rosined his bow / but I sang him a song called 'No, sir, no'.
The 'last to come in' was, I think, a sailor: 'he made no delay about making his stand / 'sir, here is my heart and my store and my land'.