Children's Song on Valentine's Day, at Eastleach

DESCRIPTION: "Good Valentine's Day morning. "Blow the oats against the wind. We are ragged and you are fine, So please to give us a Valentine." "Rags behind and rags before, Pray, old lady, remember the poor." "We're hard up, hard up, without food or fire."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Williams-FolkSongsOfTheUpperThames)
KEYWORDS: nonballad clothes poverty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond,South))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Williams-FolkSongsOfTheUpperThames, p. 303, "Children's Song on Valentine's Day, at Eastleach" (1 text) (also Williams-Wiltshire-WSRO Gl 84)
Hamer-GreenGroves, p. 20, "Valentine Chant" (1 short text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Enid Porter, _The Folklore of East Anglia_, Batsford, 1974, pp. 56-58, "(no title)" (3 short texts plus some excerpts)
Roud #1142
File: WT303

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