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Kidson’s Traditional Tunes, p. 20, from Mr Benjamin Holgate, Leeds.
1
There was a shepherd’s daughter
Who kept sheep on yon hill;
There came a young man riding by,
Who swore he’d have his will.
Fol lol lay
Fol lol di diddle lol di day
21,2.
He took her by the lilly-white hand
And by her silken sleeve,
34.
Or tell to me your name.
4
‘Oh, some they call me Jack, sweetheart,
And some they call me Will,
But when I ride the king’s high-gate
My name is Sweet William.’
44. But name.