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Thread #163413   Message #3903000
Posted By: Richie
31-Jan-18 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Seventeen Come Sunday/Waukrife Mammy
Subject: RE: Origins: Seventeen Come Sunday/Waukrife Mammy
Hi,

From James Madison Carpenter Collection MS, JMC/1/10/11, Cylinder 012, 08:58 comes this version with the title "My mommie calls me Annie" which is named after a stanza that is missing!! I've added an approximation of the stanza in brackets.

The version begins with standard Wulkrife Mammy text but then goes into the "Maid and Soldier"revision but is missing the ending.

Mommie Ca's Me Annie- sung by Alex Robb, New Deer, Aberdeenshire Scotland (Carpenter Collection 1929-1935). Robb was a school caretake at New Deer who got many of his songs while a boy in farm service from his employer.

As I went ower yon high, high hill,
I met a bonny lassie
She looked to me and I to her
And Oh bit she was sassy.

CHORUS: Wi' my turrin innal, ah reedle-ah,
Folde deril- aido.

Fare ye gang my bonny lassie,
Fare ye gang my honey
Right modestly she answered me
A yerrin [errand] to my mommie.

[Fat is yer name, my bonnie, lass,
Fat is yer name my honey,
Right modestly she answered me
My mommie ca's me Annie.]

Fare di ye bide my bonny lass
Fare di ye bide my honey,
Right modestly she answered me,
In a wee hoose wi' my mommie.

I will come to yourn windi,
When the moon is shinin' clearly,
And ee will rise and lat me in,
Your mommie will na hear me.

He did come to her windi,
When the moon was shinin' clearly,
And she did rise and lat him in,
And her mommie did na hear him.

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Richie