Posted by Helen on November 4, 2006, 4:36 pm
When I was a little girl (1950's), my mother sang this song about the willow pattern plate. I can't remember all the words and I haven't been able to find them anywhere. Do you have any ideas how I could find the words?
This is as much as I remember:
Long ago lived a maid named Su Lu,
Soft and fair as the jasmine spray.
Chang was a China boy,
Poor young China boy.
Sing Su Lu, sing well a-day.
Wing Wang Poo was her haughty father,
Drove young Chang from his door away.
Then neath the willow tree,
Su Lu wept for him.
Sing Su Lu, sing well a-day.
Now they sit in the willow branches,
Softly the breezes around them play
......................................
Changed to turtle doves.
Sing Su Lu, sing well a-day.
Thank you,
Helen Lefebvre
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