“The Miller Boy (Jolly is the Miller I)”

Description

Playparty: "Happy is the miller boy who lives by the mill, The mill turns around with its own free will, Hand on the hopper and the other on the sack, Lady keeps a-going, gents turn back." Other verses about courting, milling, weather

Notes

Wolford traces this piece back to _Pills to Purge Melancholy_, and Randolph reports that Gomme has English versions. But they don't look like the same item to me. - RBW

Recordings

• Pete Seeger, "Jolly is the Miller" (on PeteSeeger22) (on PeteSeeger33, PeteSeegerCD03)

References

1. Randolph 518, "The Miller Boy" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
2. BrownIII 75, "The Miller Boy" (3 one-stanza fragments)
3. Hudson 153, pp. 300-301, "The Jolly Miller" (1 text)
4. Cambiaire, p. 137, "The Miller's Boy" (1 text)
5. DT, OVRHILL5*
6. Roud #733
7. BI, R518