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This is very similar to another version given in Warne's Mother Goose's collection:
" (Where are you going,
My pretty maid, With your rosy cheeks,
And golden hair?' ' I'm going a-milking,
Sir/ she said; ' For strawberry leaves
Make maidens fair.' "
Some discussion on the subject took place in the pages of " Notes and Queries/' in 1870, when one correspondent said he had known it personally more than sixty years, and had heard it sung in Monmouthshire by a youth; and that he recollected an old woman born more than a century previously to 1870 who used to sing the song, and probably learnt it in her childhood.
This is the version to which this writer alludes:
" ' Where are you going, my pretty maid?' ' I ' m going a-milking, sir,' she said,
* Sir,' she said, 'sir,' she said; ' I ' m going a-milking, sir,' she said.
" ' What is your fortune, my pretty maid ?' ' My face is my fortune, sir,' she said, 'Sir,' she said, etc.
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