I'm a Day too Young

DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a girl and asks how old she is. She says, "I'm a day too young to be your bride ... to lay by your side." They have sex. "I found she was not a day too young." She asks when they will marry: never; "carry your big belly home to your mam"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Reeves/Sharp-TheIdiomOfThePeople)
KEYWORDS: seduction rake youth
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South),Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "WILLING MAID, A DAY TOO YOUNG, THE"
Greig/Duncan7 1311, "Linkin' Owre the Lea" (5 fragments, 5 tunes)
Reeves/Sharp-TheIdiomOfThePeople 30, "I'm a Day Too Young" (1 text)
Roud #1003
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Tripping Over the Lea" [Laws P19] (plot)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Broom
NOTES [36 words]: Steve Gardham appears to treat both "I'm a Day too Young" and "Tripping Over the Lea" as Laws P19, but Laws and Roud seem to split them. The plots are obviously quite similar, so it might be best to look under both. - RBW
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