Jump Over the Garden Wall

DESCRIPTION: "Just jump over the garden wall, Dear little girlie to me. I've been lonely a long long time And the wall's not hard to climb, You just jump up and you just jump down; I'll not let you fall"; if she comes, they will marry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: love courting | wall
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 101-102, "Just jump over the garden wall" (1 text)
Roud #32571
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Over the Garden Wall" (theme)
NOTES [36 words]: Fowke claims that this is a version of Hunter and Fox's "Over the Garden Wall." Certainly the themes are similar -- enough so that one might well have inspired the other. But I do not think they are the same song. - RBW
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File: KSUC101A

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