Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Seventeen Come Sunday is another song from Joe Offer's collection.
The song is new to me and as with others from this collection, I have created my own chord progression for it.
The following footnote accompanied the song in the collection:
Source: Palmer, R (1979) Everyman's Book of English Country Songs London, Dent
Notes:
Communicated by Walter Pardon, Knapton, Norfolk. August 1978
Palmer notes:
Mothers with nubile daughters were particularly wary of soldiers, who were proverbial for the girls they left behind. The man here is atypical, for he takes the girl with him to be at least a common-law wife. The song originated in the eighteenth century, and remained widely popular until the twentieth. Cecil Sharp alone collected 22 versions, but the one given here was recorded by Walter Pardon in 1978.
Seventeen Come Sunday is another song from Joe Offer's collection.
The song is new to me and as with others from this collection, I have created my own chord progression for it.
The following footnote accompanied the song in the collection:
Source: Palmer, R (1979) Everyman's Book of English Country Songs London, Dent
Notes:
Communicated by Walter Pardon, Knapton, Norfolk. August 1978
Palmer notes:
Mothers with nubile daughters were particularly wary of soldiers, who were proverbial for the girls they left behind. The man here is atypical, for he takes the girl with him to be at least a common-law wife. The song originated in the eighteenth century, and remained widely popular until the twentieth. Cecil Sharp alone collected 22 versions, but the one given here was recorded by Walter Pardon in 1978.
