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What is Jennie Weeping for
 1. Oh, what is Jennie weeping for, A-weeping for, a-weeping for? Oh, what is Jennie weeping for, All on this summer's day? I'm weeping for my own true love, My own true love, my own true love;
 I'm weeping for my own true love, All on this summer's day.
 Rise up and choose another love, Another love, another love; Rise up and choose another love, All on this summer's day.
 2. Poor Mary is a weeping, a-weeping, a-weeping, Poor Mary is a-weeping, on a fine summer's day. Pray tell me what you're weeping for? &c.
 Because my father's dead and gone, is dead and gone, is
 dead and gone; Because my father's dead and gone, on a fine summer's day.
 She is kneeling by her father's grave, her father's grave, her father's grave; She is kneeling by her father's grave, on a fine summer's day.
 Stand up and choose your love, choose your love, choose your love; Stand up and choose your love, on a bright summer's day. ________________________________________________________
 (1) from Berwickshire: A.M. Bell in Antiquary XXX.16; Gomme II (1898), 55; SC (1948), 82 (no. 116); (2) Rev. W. Gregor, in Gomme, loc cit. Cf. MacColl, Streets of Song, no. 13, learned in Salford in childhood: 
Poor Mary sat a-weeping, 
A-weeping, a-weeping, Poor Mary sat a-weeping, On a bright summer's day. 
O, Mary, what you weeping for, What you weeping for, what you weeping for? O, Mary, what you weeping for On a bright summer's day. 
I'm weeping for my lover, For my lover, for my lover. I'm weeping for my lover On a bright summer's day. [St. 2-3 (at least) sung by girls on Leslie Green, 1938.] 
Gomme & Sharp III (1912), 18 ("Poor Mary Sits A-Weeping", from Kent). See another version in Fraser (1975), 110. MS