{"id":7628,"date":"2020-12-11T07:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T07:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=7628"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:03:24","slug":"shes-proud-and-shes-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/shes-proud-and-shes-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s proud and she’s beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>The Plough Boy
Sarah
Sarie<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1906<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>George Bastow \/ Fred Leigh<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN16652<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>George Bastow<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Carver, Charlie 1960 England : Suffolk
Philips, Cyril 1960 England : Sussex
Porter, Sarah 1961 England : Sussex
Webb, Percy 1975-1976 England : Suffolk
Ling, Ruby 1975-1980 England : Suffolk <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Now I love my Sarah she works at our farm\nAnd so long as she's true to me I'll do her no harm\nWhen she told I she would marry I, I felt twice as big\nCos I'd rather have Sarah than Master's prize pig\n\nShe's proud and she's be-a-utiful, she's fat and as fair\nAs the buttercups and daisies what grows in the air\nFi dolderol day, Fi dolderol day\nFi dolderol, fi dolderol, fi dolderol day<\/em>\n\nThis morning my Sarah was milking the cow\nWhen the stool over ballyanced and she fell off somehow\n'Have you hurt yourself very much', I started to yell\nSays she, 'Oi've hurt my arm' but that bain't where she fell\n\nWhen we goes out court-i-ing, Oi loikes it 'cos whoi\nAll the toime she says nothing much, and noither do Oi\nIf Oi gives her a little squeeze, then she squeezes me\nAnd the more Sarah squeezes Oi, the more Oi loves she.\n\nWhen Mother she haerd how my Sarah Oi'd won\nShe said, 'That gal bayn't good enough for my handsome son'\nMy fayther he looked at me so gentle and kind\nAnd wanted to know if my Sarah was blind\n\nWhen us two get marry-ed there's sure to be fun\nFor they tells I that the parson he makes two into one\nBut I think we shall puzzle him 't'wixt you and me\nThere's enough fat on Sarah to make two or three\n\nNow the first loving couple or so I believe\nWere a young man named Adam and a damsel called Eve\nPeople say it was wrong of him that apple to chew\nBut if Eve were like sarah what else could he do?\n\nPoor Sarah she fell in the river one day\nAnd she might have drown-ded if Oi'd not passed that way\nWhen Oi'd saved her, she looked as if Oi'd done some big croime\nAnd she said, 'Just you mind where you grab me next time'\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
An early 20th century Music Hall number, still widely sung in the pubs of  south-east of England a hundred years later. Cyril Phillips sings it on the  Musical Traditions  Just Another Saturday Night<\/em>, which celebrates the songs sung in Sussex pubs in the 1950s and 60s, as collected by Brian Matthews.  Also in the repertoire of other Sussex\/Suffolk pub singers like Charlie Carver, Sarah Porter, Percy Webb and Ruby Ling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was sung in the Halls by George Bastow<\/a> – one of a number of songs in which he lampooned country folk – his “Farmer Giles” songs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
You can hear several versions of it on the excellent Sussex Traditions site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a version recorded by Owen Ray in 1912:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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