Save Rosemary and Thyme

X:42
T:Save Rosemary and Thyme
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Morris, 1950, pp. 235-36. Sung by Mrs. G. A. GriTEin, Newberry,
O:Fla.; learned from her father.
N:Child 2
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:C % Hexatonic (-6)
C | EEC GGG | FED C3 |
w:Go tell her to make me a cam-*bric shirt
E2 C EEF | G3-G2 G | Gcc DDD |
w:Save rose-ma-ry and thyme,* With-out an-y need-le or
B2 B D2 C | E2 C GGG | ECD C2 |]
w:seam-ster's work, And she shall be a true lov-er of mine.
W:
W:Go tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Without any needle or seamster's work,
W:And she shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell her to wash it all in a dry well,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Where water never sprung, or rain never fell,
W:And she shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell her to hang it out on a thorn bush,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:A bush that never growed since Old Adam was born,
W:And she shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell her to iron it against the house back,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Without looking down or letting it get black,
W:And she shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell him to get him an acre of ground,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Betwixt the sea water and the sea sand,
W:And he shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell him to plant it in little grain corn,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Tell him to plough it in with a horse's horn,
W:And he shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell him to reap it with a shickle of leather,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Tell him to haul it home on a peafowl's feather,
W:And he shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell him to thresh it against the house wall,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Without looking down or letting a grain fall,
W:And he shall be a true lover of mine.
W:
W:Go tell him when he gets all this work done,
W:Save rosemary and thyme,
W:Tell him to come to me for his cambric shirt,
W:And he shall be a true lover of mine.

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