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Down by some riverside where ships went sailing
No full textBold Wolfe leaves with his army to fight the French in Quebec. He is wounded but dies happily when he learns that Quebec has lost her pride and was beaten.Laws, NAB, A1; Mercer: Greenleaf, p. 96; Peacock, p. 986; Fowke, Penguin, p. 18 (reprinted from Greenleaf); MacKenzie, p. 198; Fowke & Mills, Canada! Story in Song, p. 48 (reprinted from Greenleaf)
Oh love is such a very funny thing when it touches with the young and the old
No full textSong of warning to young men to stay away from girls, who will cause you to spend your money in courting them, and then treat you badly when you marry themSee annotation folder
. . . foolish, at home I could not stay
No full textHabitual drinker fights and is injured; decides to mend his ways and marry but resumes drinking when he fights with his wife. Song ends in warning to sailors to avoid marriage
There was an old farmer was ploughing one day
No full textSong about a woman who went to hell and had to come back because the devil wouldn't keep her.Child #278; Mercer: Peacock, p. 265; Coffin, p. 14
I'm tired of living alone
No full textWords fragmentary, tune played on accordian. Possibly "The Prisoner's Song" ("Oh I wish I had someone to love me")
One Saturday night as I suppose
No full textHumourous song. Courting couple get into a big shirt together.Mercer, p. 293: Peacock, 1965:69
