by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Who shall have my lady fair
Language: English
Who shall have my lady fair, When the leaves are green? Who but I should win my lady fair, When the leaves are green? Who shall win my lady, When the leaves are green? Not you, no, no, The bravest man that best love can Shall win my lady fair. Dandirly, dandirly, dandirly dan, He shall marry her, he's the man; Dandirly, dandirly, dandirly dan, When the leaves are green, He shall marry my lady, When the leaves are green. Will you bury my lady fair, When the leaves are green? No, not I; I won't bury my lady fair, When the leaves are green. Will you bury my lady, When the leaves are green? Will you? Why so? I'd rather marry my lady fair, E'en though the trees were bare. Dandirly, dandirly, dandirly dan, She shall marry a proper man; Dandirly, dandirly, dandirly dan, When the leaves are green, He shall marry my lady, When the leaves are green.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795 - 1856), "Who shall have my lady fair", 1869 [ chorus ], partsong [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 160