"27. COME, MY LOVE

Contributed by Robert Berger of Montgomery County, and known to two in the rhetoric class.

1. |: Come, my love, and go with me, :| (three times)
And we'll be married on Friday O.

2. |: I am too young, I am not fit, :| (three times)
I cannot leave my mamma yet.

3. |: Oh, yes, you are, you are just right, :| (three times)
You'll be sixteen to-morrow night.

4. |: If that be so, then I will go, :| (three times)
And we'll be married on Friday O.

5. |: Now you're married, you must be good, :| (three times)
Go and chop your wife some wood.

6. |: Chop it fine and carry it in, :| (three times)
And she will kiss you once again.

Other stanzas are composed spontaneously, all sorts of tasks being assigned."

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