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. . . crabs on toast
No full textGirl eats lots of food at restaurant, man can't pay for it with fifty cents.Fowke, FH Index, 3/8/49
Jim Blake your wife is dyin', come over the wires tonight
No full textSon brings message for father, engineer on "Midnight Express". The message is that his wife is dying. Blake (the engineeer) is killed in a train wreck trying to get back by midnight.Fowke: FH Index, 28/4/15; 1/12/20; 16/9/25; 23/8/33; 21/11/34; 2/12/36; 25/1/39; 19/4/44; 31/12/47
One day as I rambled to my gallant brigantine
No full textSailor ashore in Jamaica meets woman, talks, meets husband, thinks of wife at home.Laws, NAB, D25; Mercer: Leach, p. 224; Peacock, p. 218; West, p. 42; Ryan, p. 23; Creighton, "Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia", p. 73, "Maritime", p. 142; Manny, p. 239
A drunkard reached his cheerless home
No full textDrunkard's wife out in storm with child asks for God's pity and wraps her child in her own clothing
'Twas down by an old deserted mill
No full textLaura and a man pledge their love but he lied, she dies and he discovers that he did love her.Leach p. 132; Mercer p. 163
At the foot of the mountain where the fountain do flow
No full textCowboy asks a girl's father for her hand; he is denied and leaves. The girl writes him a letter begging him to return. The cowboy fights his way back through her father's men and marries the girl.Fowke, "Family Herald" p. 50; Laws ABBB M26
Come all ye good people and I pray you will attend
No full textLovers are discovered by girl's father, who shoots and kills them.Mercer: Leach, p. 326; Peacock, p. 701-3
Haul on the Bowline
No full textBoat hauling song.Mercer: English (1955), p. 57; Greenleaf, p. 338; Murphy (1971), p. 19; Reader (1968), p. 68; Shay, "Iron Men and Wooden Ships", p. 132. For numerous other references see annotation folder
As I roved out one evening, down by a riverside
No full textGirl loves fishsails to America. Ship, "The Regency", is wrecked and Riley drowns. The girl's body is found on the beach with her lover.Laws ABBB, M8; Mercer: Greenleaf, p. 182 ("O'Reilly the Fisherman"; "Riley the Fisherman"; "Riley's Farewell"); Karpeles (1934), p. 66; Karpeles (1971), p. 163; Leach, p. 58; Peacock (1954), p. 127, (1965) p. 698