for the record, here's Tarrytown: Thread #131049 Message #2953535 Posted By: Bill D 27-Jul-10 - 08:16 PM Thread Name: Origins: Why is a low apron desirable? Subject: RE: Origins: Why is a low apron desirable?
♫"*In Tarrytown* (John Allison) This is a Hudson Valley version of the old English/Irish/Scots ballad "The Butcher Boy". From the singing of John Allison, this song dates back to the U.S. colonial era. In Tarrytown, there did dwell A lovely youth I knew him well He courted me my life away And now with me he will no longer stay Refrain: Oh, wide and deep, my grave will be With the wild goose grasses growing over me When I wore, my apron low He courted me, through ice and snow Now that I wear, my apron high He walks right down the street and passes by Oh, wide and deep, my grave will be With the wild goose grasses growing over me There is an inn, in Tarrrytown There my love goes and sits him down He takes another, girl on his knee And she has gold and riches more than me Oh, wide and deep, my grave will be With the wild goose grasses growing over me Oh, wide and deep, my grave will be With the wild goose grasses growing over me."♫ and Jean Redpath sang: (from memory) "When my apron did hang low, He'd follow after thru wind & snow, But now that my apron's to my chin, He passes my gate...but he won't come in." "I wish, I wish, though I wish in vain, I wish I was a maid again. But a maid again I can never be Till apples grow on an orange tree" I wish, I wish that my babe were born And sitting on my mother's knee And I, poor girl, were dead & gone; Green grass growing over me"
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