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Thread #9387 Message #3829158
Posted By: Mrrzy
28-Dec-16 - 10:28 AM
Thread Name: A Maid Went To Comber (Next Market Day)
Subject: RE: A Maid Went To Comber (Next Market Day)
I have this as
A maid went to DUBLIN her markets to learn To sell for her mammy three hanks of fine yarn She met a young man on the king's own highway Which caused this fair damsel to dally and stray
Come sit down beside me, I mean you no harm Come sit down beside me, this new tune to learn Here are three guineas your mammy to pay So leave off your learnin' till the next market day [I hear "yearnin" but learning makes more sense]
She sat down beside him, the grass was so green The day was the fairest that ever was seen "The look in your eye beats a morning in May I could side by your side till the next market day."
But as she went homeward the words he had said And the tune he had sung her still rung in her head "I'll search for that lad, be it night or by day Till he learns me the tune of the next market day."
Can't recall whose record it was on, maybe Offbeat Folk Songs? Maybe Shep Ginandes? Male, American, at any rate.