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. . . I went straight way
No full textMisfortunes of an apprentice.Mercer: Greenleaf, 214; Peacock, 575 ("A Prentice Boy in Love")
. . . you all shall hear about the fog alarm on Jude Island
No full textFishermen defend the alarm against removal to Jack's Isle
As I rode out one evening o'er the lines I took my way
No full textGirl loves railway boy against parents' wishes.No references
Down by the river there lived a young couple
No full textMan won't marry girl, leaves, then receives an invitation to her wedding.Laws P3, "No Sign of a Marriage"; Mercer: Peacock, 1965: 542, 543
Come listen unto my treasury good people young and old
No full textHusband, Henry Green, poisons wife. He is forgiven by her on her deathbed.Laws F14; Mercer: Peacock, p. 624, 626 (The Murder of Mis Wyatt); Leach, p. 252
Ye loyal [hearted?] / hearty sea-men I hope ye will attend
No full textRecitation only. Shipwreck of schooner, shipwrecked in a restaurant, food bad, rescue.Lehr, 69
It's of a jolly young man from Petit Forte belong
No full textCourtship of man and woman, their marriage, and subduing of rival
A story is told of a burglar bold who started to rob a house
No full textA burglar hides under an old maid's bed. She catches him and asks him to marry her. Recitation only.Laws NAB H23
. . . now comes the funny part, Cause I'se a pit besides my brains, and sudden to my heart
No full textPainter loses girl to friend, takes to drink, draws picture on bar-room floor of her and dies.Mercer: Burke & Olwen 1900, p. 88. [Frank Shay My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions" (N.Y., 1961, p. 82)]. Composed by H, Antoine D'Arcy (1877)
Down in old Lincoln one fine summer's night
No full textMan has intercourse with girl in Lincoln. Description of genitals - most bawdy