Rolling in the Dew
Sung by George Maynard.
Recorded by Peter Kennedy in Copthorne, Crawley, Sussex, 1956.
"O where are you going my pretty fair maid,With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?"
"I'm a-going a-milking, kind sir," she answered me,
"For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair."
"O shall I go along with you my pretty fair maid?"
"Why surely you can please yourself, kind sir, "she
answered me.
"Supposing I should lay you down, ,my pretty fair maid?"
"Why surely I'd get up again, kind sir," she answered me.
"Supposing I should dirt your gown?" (etc., as above)
"Why surely it would wash again."
"Supposing you should have a child?"
"Why surely you would be the father of it."
"What should you do for linen?"
"My father he's a linen-draper."
"What would you do for a cradle?"
"My brother he's a basket maker."
"Supposing I should run away?"
"May the Devil fetch you back again."