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My name is Daniel Sullivan, I am a slight-built man
No full textMan issues warning from gallows not to do violence.Laws E22
Come all ye young men who are reared in the Straits
No full textContracting to cut timber, represented by a committee, cutting of wood.Transcribed by David Boe 2/11/8
As I rode out one evening to take the balming air
No full textBawdy song of man and French girl making love. Double entendres of "gun", "magazine", etc
My momma always told me better than to play with a loaded gun
No full textMan in prison laments his life.Fowke, "Family Herald Index", 13/9/33; 25/11/36; 22/3/44. Country and western style
You fishermen free that go forth on the sea
No full textMan describes fishing boat engine and foibles thereof.Mercer, p. 338: Blondahl, 1964: 68; Doyle, 1940: 74; Scammell, 1945: 35; Scammell, 1966: 124; Scammell, 1940: 74
As I rode without.one morning in May, Down by a wild forest I carelessly strayed
No full textMan meets girl and makes love. Double entendres "gun", "bonny black hare", "ramrod", etc.Purslow, The Constant Lovers, p. 9
Oh, t'is of a noble lady that was coming from the ball
No full textLady meets teacher and has him fix all that needs fixing at home.No ref
'Tis of an old bos'n in [Dubber?] did dwell
No full textBos'n leaves wife, lover comes in, bos'n comes back, lover hides in chest. Bos'n takes chest, discovers lover and sells him.Peacock p. 306; Greenleaf & Mansfield pp. 112-113; Laws ABBB p. 27
Miss Nellie being a milkmaid, so handsome and so gay
No full textGirl goes to wake and meets Roger, who makes her pregnant.Annotation: no references
And it's, oh my jolly poker
No full textBoat hauling song.Mercer: England (1969), p. 44; English (1955), p. 57; English (1959), p. 7; Greenleaf, p. 339; Reader (1968), p. 68; Hugill, p. 289