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Thread #28189   Message #3405867
Posted By: maeve
16-Sep-12 - 07:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Chevrolet (Jim Kweskin)
Subject: Lyr Add: A PAPER OF PINS
Yes, as Leadfingers posted.

"Paper of Pins" is another in this vein. Sarah Makem's is a favorite of mine. There are several versions in the DT, and others in far-flung places.

There's a good one from Newfoundland, here:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/12/paperpins.htm

#01179
A Paper Of Pins (Collected By Kenneth Peacock) with videos

I'll give to you a paper of pins,
It is the way that love begins,
If you might marry me, me, me,
If you might marry me.

I won't accept your paper of pins,
If that's the way your love begins,
Sure I won't marry you, you, you,
Sure I won't marry you.

I'll give to you a suit of red,
Stitched around with golden thread,
If you might marry me, me, me,
If you might marry me.

I won't accept your suit of red,
Stitched around with golden thread,
Sure I won't marry you, you, you,
Sure I won't marry you.

I'll give to you a cloak of green,
To make you look like a fairy queen,
If you might marry me, me, me,
If you might marry me.

I won't accept your cloak of green,
To make me look like a fairy queen,
Sure I won't marry you, you, you,
Sure I won't marry you.

I'll give to you the keys of my heart,
Locked in love and never to part,
If you might marry me, me, me,
If you might marry me.

I won't accept the keys of your heart,
Locked in love and never to part,
Sure I won't marry you, you, you,
Sure I won't marry you.

I'll give to you the keys of my chest,
Plenty of money at your request,
If you might marry me, me, me,
If you might marry me.

I will accept the keys of your chest,
And plenty of money at my request,
Sure I will marry you, you, you,
Sure I will marry you.

Poor foolish girl don't think it's so,
It's only a joke from me you know,
Sure I wouldn't marry you, you, you,
Sure I wouldn't marry you.

"...Author unknown. A variant of a 19th-century nursery rhyme, The Keys Of Canterbury, collected by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1846 as #DXXXIV in The Nursery Rhymes Of England, pp.229-230 ....####
This variant was collected in 1960 from Joshua Osborne of Seal Cove, White Bay, NL, by Kenneth Peacock and published in Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, Volume 1, pp.22-23, by the National Museum Of Canada (1965) Crown Copyrights Reserved."