By laws the young heart knows.
Now is the Pink your leader,
Or go you with the Rose?
Chorus.
Pass on, oho! Pass on, aha!
By the gate of Alcalá!"
Another favorite is "Golden Ear-rings." Here the Mother, this time a Queen, sits in a chair, supposedly a throne, and close before her, on the floor, sits the youngest daughter; before this one, the next youngest, and so on, in order of age. Two other children, holding a handkerchief by the corners, walk up and down the line, one on one side and one on the other, so passing the handkerchief above the heads of the seated princesses. Then ensues the musical dialogue between these two suitors and the Queen.
"'We've come from France, my lady,
And Portugal afar.
We've heard of your fair daughters,