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Thread #102317   Message #2071956
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
09-Jun-07 - 02:29 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Strawberry Fair - old English trad.
Subject: Lyr Req: Strawberry Fair - old English trad.
I'm looking for the lyrics to Strawberry Fair (As I was going to Strawberry fair, singing, singing, buttercups and daisies).

I've got the first verse, and the ri fol bits, the book I have (ironically, called 'Strawberry Fair, pub 1985, used in schools) has the dots but only the one verse.

Now I did find it on a Children's site, but they aren't the verses I really remember (I'm sure I'd remember lines as dreadful as 'I want to purchase a generous heart; a tongue that neither is nimble nor tart').

Does anyone out there have any other versions?

Being such a staple of the school singing together sessions and ripe with double entendres, I'm surprised this isn't mentioned anywhere on the forum, other than being the source book for another song!

Thanks.

LTS