Young Collins (I)

DESCRIPTION: "Young Collins early in the morning Went whistling through the fields of corn, He spied a milkmaid neat and trim...." He asks, "Will you go along with me now go?" She refuses. He says he has a farm, ewes, lambs, poultry. She marries him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Butterworth Collection)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty marriage
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "YOUNG COLLINS"
Butterworth/Dawney-PloughboysGlory, p. 49, "Young Collins" (1 text plus some alternate lyrics, 1 tune)

Roud #1720
File: BuDa049

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