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'One dark stormy night as the trian rattled on'
No full textYoung man travelling on a train with his babt. His wife lies dead in the baggage coach ahead. Other passengers [sic] are impatient with the baby's [sic] cries until the man tells his sad story.Laws, "NAB", 277 (ballad-like pieces); Mercer, "NH, 2, 1973, 10; "CFMJ", 7, 1979; "FH" Index: Gussie L. Davis, author, 5/12/23, 27/1/37, 3/5/39, 15/12/43, 30/7/53, "Variety Musical Cavalcade", 224, Spaeth, "Read 'Em...", 174-175; Randolf, IV, 163-165; Kennedy, "A Treasury of American Ballads", 343; Pound, "American Ballads and Songs", 5
The sun went down in the western sky, the dreadful fight was o'er
No full textIrish soldier dying on the battlefield requests that lock of his hair be taken home to his mother and that she be told that no matter whaere his bones lie, his heart will always be in Erin. He dies at evening and is buried by his comrades.Laws, ABBB, J
I took my girl one evening, out to a fancy hop
No full textHumourous song about a girl with an immense appetite and thirst whose boy friend only has fifty cents. He is unable to pay for all she has consumed and so the restaurant owner wipes the floor with him.Fowke, FH Index, 3/8/49
I am a jolly sailor lad that do go on the sea
No full textSailor meets young lady at a dance and falls in love; three days later he asks her father for her hand in marriage. Father agrees to the marriage, offers him money, land and a house, but insists that he stay on the shore "plowing the land" rather than the ocean.Mercer: Leach 1965:104; Peacock 1965:505, 507