Ballads & Songs of Southern Michigan-songbook

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	424         Ballads and Songs of Michigan 176 THE QUAKER SONG For discussion of an Irish folk song somewhat similar to this dialogue song see Barry, ]AFL, XXIV, 341-342. For a text and references see Mackenzie, p. 380. See also Brewster, JAFL, XLIX, 247, and Eddy, Nos. 119 and 120. Version A was sung in 1931 by Mrs. Rachel Post, Belding, who learned the song at school, about 1868.
	A 1    "Madam, I have come a-courting, O dear, O dear me. It's not for pleasure nor for sporting, O dear, O dear me." * 2    <eYou have come at your own desire, Teoaddle ink-turn, tee-addle lay. You can sit and court the fire, Tec-addle ink-turn, tee-addle lay." x 3    "Here's a ring cost forty shillings, Thou shalt wear it if thou art willing.*'
	1Thts refrain is repeated in alternate stanzas.