X: 1
T:Song On Courtship
S:Digital Tradition, vandy3
N:Another of the degenerate versions that has lost the point of the original.
N:Verses 2 and 3 appear in Vandy, Vandy; last verse in Barnyards of Delgaty. RG
B:From Songs the Whalemen Sang
B:Collected from the journal of the Diana, 1819
Z:dt:vandy3
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
W:Yonder stands a handsome lady
W:Who she is I do not know
W:Shall I yon and court her for her beauty
W:What says you madam yes or no
W:
W:Madam I have gold and silver
W:Madam I have house and land
W:Madam I have a world of treasures
W:And all shall be at your command
W:
W:What care I for your gold and silver
W:What care I for your house and land
W:What care I for your world of treasures
W:All I want is a handsome man
W:
W:Madam do not count on beauty
W:Beauty is a flower that will soon decay
W:The brightest flower in the midst of summer
W:In the fall it will fade away
W:
W:The sweetest apple soon is rotten
W:The hottest love now soon is cold
W:A young man's word is soon forgotten
W:The coffin is the end of young and old
W:
W:A man may drink and not be drunken
W:A man may fight and not be slain
W:A man may court a handsome lady,
W:And be welcome there again
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