Often known as The Grenadier and the Lady, this a popular song in the West Country. H.E.D. Hammond collected five variants in Somerset and Dorset between 1905–7 including one from W. Barlett at Wimborne, and in 1950 Peter Kennedy recorded Walter Haynes singing it in the bar of the Ilchester Arms at Abbotsbury. The song was also popular in other parts of the country and frequently turns up in America. It is a favourite with the Holme Valley Beagles in South Yorkshire where it’s called Where the Watter Rattles and George Dunn sang it in the Midlands under the title The Nightingale Sings.
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