Graham Irwin - Seventeen Come Sunday - with lyrics in the description

Graham Irwin sings Seventeen Come Sunday accompanied on 12-string electro-acoustic guitar tuned to DADGAD, and M4 (Merlin) dulcimer guitar. One of many songs about an encounter between a licentious soldier and a young woman. This song is also known as As I Roved Out or The Soldier and the Maid. Seventeen Come Sunday was collected by Percy Grainger in 1905 from Fred Atkinson of Redbourne in Lincolnshire. #folksong #dadgad #traditional #dadgadtuning #folkmusic #irishfolk Images: NightCafé LYRICS: As I walked out one May morning, One May morning so early, I overtook a handsome maid And my goodness she was early. Chorus: With me rue rum rah, fol the diddle day, Whack fol the diddle iddle ie doh. Her eyes were bright and her stockings white, And her buckles shone like silver, She had a dark and a rolling eye, And her hair hung over her shoulder. How old are you, my pretty fair maid? How old are you, my honey? She answered me right cheerfully, I'm seventeen come Sunday. Could you love me, my pretty fair maid? Could you love me, my honey? She answered me right cheerfully, I darst not for my mummy. But if you come round to my mummy's house, When the moon shines bright and clearly, I will come down and let you in, And my mummy shall not hear me. So I went down to her mummy's house, When the moon shone bright and clearly, She did come down and let me in, And I lay in her arms till morning. She says, Kind sir, will you marry me? I says, Oh no, my honey, For the fife and drum is my delight And I'm happy in the army.