The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #9276   Message #59833
Posted By: Gordon Dougherty
23-Feb-99 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins/Versions: Matty Groves / Mattie Groves
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
...and even more versions; I sing a version that I heard on a recording done by Steeleye Span that begins,

"A holidy, a holiday, and the first one of the year. Lord Donald's wife came into the church, the gospel for to hear. And when the meeting, it was done, she cast her eyes about, and there she saw little Matty Groves, walking through the crowd."