Hi,

I'm on 8C. On a Mountain Stands a Lady (Children's game song variants) Roud 2649; "There Stands a Lady" (Sharp); "Yonder Stands a Lovely Lady;" "There She Stands a Lovely Creature;" "Lady on the Mountain" (Opie);

This is one fundamental stanza from Berrington (Shropshire Folk-lore, pp. 509, 510):

Here stands a lady on a mountain,
Who she is I do not know;
All she wants is gold and silver,
All she wants is a nice young man.

I was wondering if these late 1800s game and play songs can be compared to the Plough Plays found in UK and US. Anyone think that the children's songs evolved from the similar Plough Plays?

Richie