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Title
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When shall we get married?
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Singer
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Russell, Mrs.
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Notes
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Williams, Alfred: Ms / FSUT: 'We have several other songs or chants of this kind. They were very popular at one time, though they are seldom heard now. My first hearing of this was when the military manoeuvres were being held on the Wiltshire Downs about the year 1893. Then I heard it sung, or rather chanted, by a large crowd of soldiers, sitting on the ground, at Coate, near Swindon. The copy I obtained of Mrs Russell, Tetbury. It is old. The first line of every couplet is repeated three times, as indicated at the beginning of the piece.'
Williams, Alfred: WGS: 'We have several other songs or chants of this kind to print in due course. They were very popular at one time, though they are seldom heard now. My first hearing of this was when the military manoeuvres were being held on the Wiltshire Downs about the year 1893. Then I heard it sung, or rather chanted, by a large crowd of soldiers, sitting on the ground, at Coate, near Swindon. The copy I obtained of Mrs Russell, Tetbury, late of Crudwell. It is very old. The first line of every couplet is repeated three times, as indicated at the beginning of the piece.'
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
