by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Suky, you shall be my wife
Language: English
Suky, you shall be my wife, And I'll tell you why: I have got a little pig, And you have got a sty. I have got a dun cow, And you can make good cheese Suky, will you have me? Say "Yes," if you please.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, verses from a Poetry Bookshop publication, Nurse Lovechild's Legacy.  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Suky, you shall be my wife", 1923, published 1924, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles, no. 10. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45