{"id":18526,"date":"2023-01-15T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T10:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=18526"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T11:02:46","slug":"pretty-little-girl-from-nowhere-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/pretty-little-girl-from-nowhere-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty little girl from nowhere, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>(The Fetterangus Rangers)<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1909<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>EW Rogers \/ John Neat<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>(RN10548)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Ella Retford, Florrie Forde<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Fragments appear in The Fetterangus Rangers<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>sung by Stewart , Lucy; Scotland : Aberdeenshire; 1959

Modern performances<\/strong>
The New Victory Band<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lyrics from sheet music in Empire News & The Umpire<\/em>\u00a0March 1910<\/strong>\n\nThere's a dainty little girl, one of the prettiest,\nAnd you'll meet her in a leafy country lane,\nYou ask her where she lives, her address she never gives,\nShe tries to tell the name of it, in vain,\nIt's just a cot, she'll answer, on the boundary,\nOf a stately English mansion, fine and grand.\nIt stands here all alone and all around she's known,\nAs the little girl from No Man's Land.\n\nShe's the pretty little girl from nowhere,\nNowhere at all,\nIn a house very small,\nThat's ten miles from the railway station,\nNo name, no number, so lovers never call,\nOn the pretty little girl from nowhere,\nNowhere at all.\n\n<\/em>In her little old sun bonnet and her cotton dress,\nShe's as fine as any lass of high degree,\nLads from far and near come a-courting her, I fear\nHer husband never one of them will be,\nFor a certain youthful lordling, who has lost his way,\nLost his heart to her, and soon I understand,\nTitled single girls will mourn, that the season's catch has gone,\nTo the little girl from No Man's Land.\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A Music Hall  song most associated with the singing of both Florrie Forde<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0Ella Retford<\/a>. It appears to have been a \u201cfree song\u201d –  at this time some songwriters and publishers were starting to move away from selling the exclusive performance rights to individual artists. The song was  sung in pantomimes up and down the UK in the 1909\/10 season and it appears to have been very popular for a relatively short period. It seems to have been fondly remembered as it turns up in a number of memoirs and novels, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n