“The Mode o' Wooing”

Description

"Young men when that they do arrive Between a score and twenty-five... [are inclined] To gang away a-wooing, a woo woo wooing." The singer tells of asking advice on how to court, but the old men's advice is bad. He has better luck asking an old woman

Supplemental text

Mode o' Wooing, The
  Partial text(s)

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From Stokoe/Reay, Songs and Ballads of Northern England, pp. 106-107.

Young men when that they do arrive
Between a score and twenty-five,
There's scarcely one that you will find
But's either more or less inclined
  To gang away a-wooing, a woo woo wooing,
  To gang away a-wooing, amang the maidens fair.

(17 additional stanzas)

References

1. Stokoe/Reay, pp. 106-107, "The Mode o' Wooing" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. ST StoR106 (Partial)
3. Roud #3151
4. BI, StoR106