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I'M SEVENTEEN COME SUNDAY

As I rose up one May morning,
One May morning so early,
I overtook a pretty, fair maid
Just as the sun was dawning

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With my rue rum ray,
Fother diddle ay,
Wok fol air diddle i-do.

Her stockings white, and her boots were bright
And her buckling shone like silver
She had a dark and a rolling eye
And her hair hung round her shoulder

"Where are you going, my pretty, fair maid
Where are you going, my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"I've an errand for my mummy."

"How old are you, my pretty, fair maid
How old are you, my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"I am seventeen come Sunday"

"Will you take a man, my sweet pretty maid
Will you take a man, my honey?"
She answered me right cheerfully
"I darst not for my mummy

Will you come down to my mummy's house
When the moon is shining clearly?
If you come down, I'll let you in
And me mummy shall not hear me"

I went down to her mummy's house
When the moon shone bright and clearly?
She did come down, and let me in
And I lay in her arms till morning

"Oh, it's now I am with my soldier lad,
His ways they are so winning.
The drum and fife are my delight
And a pint o' rum in the morning"

Collected by Percy Grainger at Redbourne, Lincolnshire September 1905. Versions also collected in Sussex, Somerset and Scotland. Burns re-wrote the words in "The Scots Musical Museum", vol IV, no. 397, and there are also broadside versions of the text.


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Wassail! V