Origins: A different Young Banker

Subject: Origins: A different Young Banker
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 19 Dec 25 - 12:14 PM

Hi all
Here's one that has foxed Ballad List and Tradsong forums.

Steve has it in with the regular Young Bankers, Roud 3321, but it's definitely not related to that song, but what is it? Has all the traits of a broadside ballad and many of the lines are commonplaces.

O, it's of a young banker in Tarranton did dwell,
Of all the young bankers none could him excel,
For he was such a rover in every degree,
He left his own country a rovin' must be.

He roved till he came unto Newark famed town,
Went into an alehouse and set himself down,
Saying, "Fetch me some licqour without more delay,
For many a long mile have I travelled this day."

The landlord's fair daughter was just passin' by,
Upon this young banker she fixed her eye,
"Oh may I go with you, my darling," says she,
"With my jolly young banker the country to see?"

sung by George Orton to Percy Grainger.