Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
Traditional
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- Language
- English
- Comments
- [Roud 1570; G/D 7:1334; Ballad Index R109; MusTrad DB07; trad.] Traditional ballad about a young girl thinking she's ready to be a woman and find her mate. In the song the mother offers her daughter a (cow) if she will whistle. The daughter says she cannot. The request is repeated with (sheep, etc.); each time the daughter refuses. Finally the mother offers a man; the daughter engages to whistle with all her might and her mother becomes furious. The girl can be of varying ages resulting in variant names such as "Fourteen Last Sunday", "Sixteen Years, Mama" and "Eighteen Years Old".
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