Add to ORKGWoman is forced to marry someone other than her true love Johnny Doyle. Her pain is so great that she dies.Laws M2, ABBB 180, 300. (Mercer, p. 140): Karpeles, 1971: 212-213; Peacock 1965: 687, 689, 690 (3 versions); Leach, 1965: 64. Also: Conche, 68-40, C548; Conception Harbour, 73-153, C1618, C1620; Placentia Bay, 78-239, C3575A; Stephenville, 78-361, C4386A
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When her parents discover her love for Johnny Doyle, the heroine is locked in her bedroom. When she ...
Young man meets a girl in a meadow and proposes marriage, but she refuses, saying that she is faithf...
Man and woman get married. The man's old love goes to the wedding. He sings a song for her, the brid...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Sentimental song of an orphaned and unwed woman who dies in childbirth. Her lover returns, too late,...
A young woman is promised in marriage, by her family, to a man she doesn't love. She tries to run aw...
Girl plans to marry Johnny Doyle secretly but her mother learns of her plans and arranges for her to...
A girl foresakes her lover to marry another man. The lover sings after the wedding supper and the gi...
Girl forsakes her lover to marry a richer man. When she hears her lover sing at the wedding, she fee...
Johnny Doyle's true love is promised to another - Willie Cooper. She dies of grief and her funeral i...
Mother finds out her daughter intends to elope with Johnny. Forces her to dress for another wedding ...
A lover tells of his own constancy, lamenting the fickleness of the girl, who has married another. H...
Man goes to a wedding where his true love is supposed to marry another man. He sings her a song aski...
Woman promises her love to a man before he goes away but while he's away, another man wants to marry...
A woman's lover comes to her house and suggests they take a walk in the woods. He becomes angry; she...
When her parents discover her love for Johnny Doyle, the heroine is locked in her bedroom. When she ...
Young man meets a girl in a meadow and proposes marriage, but she refuses, saying that she is faithf...
Man and woman get married. The man's old love goes to the wedding. He sings a song for her, the brid...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Sentimental song of an orphaned and unwed woman who dies in childbirth. Her lover returns, too late,...