“'Twas Getting Late Up in September”

Description

In Labrador, "'Twas getting late up in September"; the singer meets a girl come to fill her buckets at the fountain. He proposes, she accepts, "a priest came up on the steamer," they marry and "live in a nice little cottage, Down by the side of the sea"

Supplemental text

'Twas Getting Late Up in September
  Partial text(s)

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From Kenneth Peacock, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, Volume II,
pp. 601-602. Sung by Jim Rice, Cape Broyle, July 1951.

'Twas getting up late in September,
I remember the day of the week;
To spread fish on the bawn to make wages
We went there without much sleep.

'Twas early I arose in the morning,
And sped to the brow of the hill;
Where I spied a fair girl in the valley,
She came, her buckets to fill.

(Stanzas 1-2 of 9)

References

1. Peacock, pp. 601-602, "'Twas Getting Late Up in September" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Doyle3, p. 78, "'Twas Getting Late Up in September" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Blondahl, p. 104, "'Twas Getting Late Up In September" (1 text, 1 tune)
4. ST Doyl3078 (Partial)
5. Roud #7288
6. BI, Doyl3078