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The Ship's Carpenter
No full textShip's carpenter murders a girl. Her ghost appears during voyage; ship's safety threatened while murder is unpunished.Mercer: p. 111; Karpeles, 1971: 115 (The Gosport Tragedy); Leach, 1965 : 74, 76 (Pretty Polly; The Gosport Tragedy); Peacock, 1965: 404-405 (The Ship's Carpenter; The Perjured Ship's Carpenter)
James Pennell
No full textLament for Captain James Pennell and other men (from Trepassey) who are drowned when schooner wrecked
In a little country school house where the little Darkies go
No full textChildren's spelling song - chicken, rooster, corned beef
Sad with care I wandered, my heart is filled with woe
No full textComic consequences of being mistaken for another man.CFMJ: FH Index 21/9/38; 5/4/44; 22/1/47
The Drunkard's Dream
No full textReformed drunkard tells of heaven-sent dream which caused him to foreswear drink.Laws, NAB, p. 279 (imported ballads and folksongs); Mercer: Greenleaf, p. 151; Cox, p. 398; CFMJ: FH Index - 5 printings; Puckett Coll.: 5: 1: 25
Curiosity caused a young native of Erin
No full textEmpress laments the loss of her "green linnet" (Napolean); praises his conquests.Mercer: Peacock (1954), p. 129; Peacock (1965), p. 458
[Onwards] I rambled by the banks of the river
No full textGirl weeps for dead lover on riverside; his ghost rises from the water and vows to protect her. She dies to be unitedd with him.Laws, NAB, C8; Mercer: Peacock, p. 385; Fowke: FH Index, 10/5/51
As I roved out one fine evening
No full textYoung man and girl argue over the girl's pride in wearing a cashmere shawl.Mercer: Peacock, p. 777-778
An old fashioned couple were [sitting alone by [their own] fireside
No full textSentimental song in which an old man recalls forty years of wedded love
