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Book Title | Author | Date | Notes |
Song Title | Shepherd come home to thy breakfast |
Roud No. | 1055 |
Collected From | Hicks, George |
Location | Arlington |
County | Gloucestershire |
Collected By | Williams, Alfred |
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Source Primary | WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 2 - Gloucestershire: Williams, A: MS collection No Gl 45 |
Source Secondary | Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 3rd June, 1916, p 3, Part 32, No. 3: Williams, A: Folk songs of the upper Thames, 1923 p 176, 177 |
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Verse 1 Shepherd, o shepherd, come home to thy breakfast. Oh, what hast thou got for my breakfast, If I come home today? Here's bacon and eggs for thy breakfast, If thou'lt come home today. I can't come home, nor I won't come home; For my sheep will go into the wilderness, And they all will stray away. Verse 2 Shepherd, o shepherd, come home for thy dinner. Oh, what hast thou got for my dinner, If I come home today? Here's bread and cheese for thy dinner, If thou'lt come home today. I can't come home, nor I won't come home; For my sheep will go into the wilderness, And they will go astray. Verse 3 Shepherd, o shepherd, come home to thy supper. Oh, what hast thou got for my supper, If I come home today? Here's brandy and ale, and a sweet pretty girl, If thou'lt come home today. I can come home, and I will come home; For my sheep won't go into the wilderness, Nor they won't all go astray. | |
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Williams, Alfred : Ms / WGS / FSUT: 'This, too, I have heard in several places, i.e. Kemble, Highworth, and Arlington, where I obtained the copy of George Hicks, gardener and grave digger.' Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010. |
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