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LOW DOWN IN THE BROOM (1) It was last Monday morning, the day appointed was For me to go down to the broom, to meet my bonny lad How sweet and pleasant was the day I kept him company For he's low, low down in the broom Waiting in the broom for me. I looked over my left shoulder, to see whom I could see There I saw my own true love, come running down to me His heart so brisk and bonny To bear me company For he's low, low down in the broom Waiting in the broom for me. I took hold of his hand, and gaily sang my heart As long as we're together, I hope we ne'er shall part Oh part my dear, no never Such a thing can never be For he's low, low down in the broom Waiting in the broom for me. For he's low, low down in the broom Waiting in the broom for me. a fragment of a fuller broadside, collected from an old Sussex singer around the turn of last century ... From the singing of Frankie Armstrong, but also "recently" recorded by Coope, Boyes and Simpson ... The unnamed "old Sussex singer" was Henry Hills of Lodsworth in Sussex, and this song was noted from him by W. P. Merrick in January, 1900. Frankie Armstrong se ems to have altered his text somewhat (and reversed the sexes of the participant s [MD] filename[ LOWBROM1 RJ  8note Sheet |
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