Strawberry Fair a song sanitised by the Victorians but now part wild

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When Rev Sabine Baring-Gould collected Strawberry Fair from the singing of John Masters in 1891, he thought the words rather indelicate and so rewrote them in a rather Fol-de-rol Victorian style. However, in his notes, preserved in the Baring Gould collection (now made accessible by Wren Music http://www.wrenmusic.co.uk), John Masters' original words are recorded. This version sung by Alan Rosevear uses Baring Gould's sanitised verses to start and then slips into the wild Devon version -- can you spot the transition point? Roud No. 173. • STRAWBERRY FAIR • As I was going to Strawberry Fair • Singing, singing buttercups and daisies • I met a maiden taking her ware • Tol-de-dee • Her eyes were blue and golden her hair • As she went on to Strawberry Fair • Ri-tol-ri-tol-riddle-tol-di-dee • Ri-tol-ri-tol-riddle-tol-di-dee • Kind • sir pray pick of my basket she said • Singing, singing buttercups and daisies • My cherries ripe and my roses so red • Tol-de-dee • My stawberries sweet I can them spare • As I go on to Strawberry Fair • Ri-tol-ri-tol-riddle-tol-di-dee • Ri-tol-ri-tol-riddle-tol-di-dee • break from BG published to James Masters version • O I have a lock that doth lack a key • O I have a lock, sir, she did say • If you have a key then come this way • As we go on to Strawberry Fair • Between us I reckon, that when we met • The key to the lock it was well set • The key to the lock it well did fit • As we went on to Strawberry Fair • O would that my lock had been a gun • I'd shoot the Blacksmith, for I'm undone • And wares to carry I now have none • That I should go to Strawberry Fair

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