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Famous Flower of Serving Men Ewan MacColl (child 106)

Sweet William - The Famous Flower of Serving Men Ewan MacColl The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol. 3 - The Child Ballads Child Ballad # 106 Child considered this ballad to be closely related to "The Border Widow's Lament". The first several verses of both these ballads are very similar and in some cases exactly the same. In the Famous Flower of Serving Men after burying her husband the woman cuts her hair and pretends to be a man calling herself "Sweet William". She goes to the King becoming his servant, in most versions she becomes his chamberlain. One day while the King is out hunting and Sweet William remains at home she takes out her lute and plays singing of her life and all that has happened to her. An old man who had also remained at home overhears her singing. The old man tells the King what he has learned. The King questions Sweet William and finding out the true story is overjoyed. He then makes her his wife, the serving man becoming a queen.