When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin

DESCRIPTION: "When all your apples been all garnered, And your mangol harvest's due... It sets my heart a-ticking, like the ticking of a clock, When the frost is on the pumpkin, And the fodder's in the shock. The singer recalls the happy sights of harvest time
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973 (Hamer-GreenGroves)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad bird
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hamer-GreenGroves, pp. 49-50, "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1149
File: HaGr049

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