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Wiltshire Community History

Folk Song Information

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Song Title	Twas on an Easter Monday
Roud No.	441
Collected From	Bradshaw, William
Location	Bibury
County	Gloucestershire
Collected By	Williams, Alfred
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Date
Source Primary	WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 2 - Gloucestershire: Williams, A: MS collection No Gl 57
Source Secondary	Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard,20th May, 1916, p 3, Part 31, No. 8
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Song Lyrics
Verse 1 Twas on an Easter Monday, In the springtime of the year, A mother and a daughter, As you shall quickly hear. Verse 2 Jane said, as they were walking, "I'll tell you what I'll do: I must and will have a husband, For the fit comes on me now." Verse 3 "You say you will get married, Where will you get a man?" "Oh, then," replies the daughter, "I will have bouncing John. Verse 4 For he calls me his dear honey, A-milking of my cow, And I know he loves me dearly, For the fit comes on me now." Verse 5 "Suppose that he deceives you, As he has done before?" "Oh, then," replies the daughter, "I'll try a dozen more. Verse 6 There's millers, brewers and bakers, And men that follow the plough, I will have a husband mother, For the fit comes on me now." Verse 7 And now we have got married, The truth to you I'll tell, I have a handsome young man, And he does love me well. Verse 8 We never have any words, Or blows in any degree, But we live quite contented, In peace and unity.

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Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'Words of William Bradshaw, Bibury.' Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.