Brass Ensemble Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Digital Download SKU: A0.802621 Composed by Traditional English Broadside Ballad. Arranged by Peet du Toit. Contemporary. Score and parts. 7 pages. Peet du Toit #6036573. Published by Peet du Toit (A0.802621). Sweet Polly Oliver is an English broadside ballad (Roud #367), traceable from 1840 or earlier. It is also known as Pretty Polly Oliver and has several variant sets of lyrics, set to a single anonymous melody.It is one of the best known of a number of folk songs describing women disguising themselves as men to join the army to be with their lovers.Sarah Brightman inter alia recorded this song.