Lavender Girl

DESCRIPTION: "When the sun climbs over the hills And the skylark sings so merrily, Then I my little basket fill And trudge away to the village cheerily." The girl sells lavender to "keep my mother, myself, and my brother"; she cries, "Come and buy my lavender."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: commerce home mother family orphan
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 245, "Lavender Girl" (1 text)
Forget-Me-Not-Songster, p. 201, "Lavender Girl" (1 text)
cf. Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan, p. 480, "Lavender Girl" (source notes only)
Roud #15774
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sweet Blooming Lavender" (theme)
NOTES [55 words]: There is a nineteenth century song "The Lavender Girl," beginning, "A girl who lives up at our court, Served me as she didn't ought, And made of me a cruel sport, Though I loved her dearly." Roud lumps that with this, but I can't see that they have much in common except that the main character is a girl who sells lavender. - RBW
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