Add to ORKGSailor bids farewell to his true love. She prays for his safe return but he dies on the voyage. A letter he wrote to her expresses hope they will meet in heaven.Mercer: English, p. 5; Laws, ABBB, 147 K13
A sailor asks a woman to marry him - she cannot. For seven years she was courted by a sailor, for se...
Girl meets a sailor while roaming one evening. He asks cause of her sorrow; it is for her dark-eyed ...
A young man is pressed into sailing by his girl's father's hand. They hit an awful storm while at s...
Sailor dies at sea. His comrades take his girl a farewell note in which he has said they will meet i...
Sailor dies at sea. Shipmates bring a letter to his true love in which he says he hopes they will me...
Sailor bidding farewell to love.Laws, ABBB, K13; Mercer: English, (1959), p. 5 (fragment)
Boy vows love and dies at sea - still true.Laws, ABBB, p. 147 (K13); Mercer: English, p.
Only one verse of song given; it deals with a sailor about to leave his true love
The narrator roamed out one night when he saw a fair woman weeping for her lover lost over the sea. ...
Sailor meets a young woman and asks why she is weeping. She explains that she misses her dark-eyed s...
Song about false love. Sailor leaves his girlfriend while he's at sea, promising to marry her on his...
Sailor promised to return to his true love, Phoebe, after he serves his time at sea. She dies while ...
Sailor returns to find his true love married to a house carpenter. By promises of money and luxury h...
Sailor writes letter to his girl while he is at sea. Her father intercepts them so that the girl nev...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
A sailor asks a woman to marry him - she cannot. For seven years she was courted by a sailor, for se...
Girl meets a sailor while roaming one evening. He asks cause of her sorrow; it is for her dark-eyed ...
A young man is pressed into sailing by his girl's father's hand. They hit an awful storm while at s...
Sailor dies at sea. His comrades take his girl a farewell note in which he has said they will meet i...
Sailor dies at sea. Shipmates bring a letter to his true love in which he says he hopes they will me...
Sailor bidding farewell to love.Laws, ABBB, K13; Mercer: English, (1959), p. 5 (fragment)
Boy vows love and dies at sea - still true.Laws, ABBB, p. 147 (K13); Mercer: English, p.
Only one verse of song given; it deals with a sailor about to leave his true love
The narrator roamed out one night when he saw a fair woman weeping for her lover lost over the sea. ...
Sailor meets a young woman and asks why she is weeping. She explains that she misses her dark-eyed s...
Song about false love. Sailor leaves his girlfriend while he's at sea, promising to marry her on his...
Sailor promised to return to his true love, Phoebe, after he serves his time at sea. She dies while ...
Sailor returns to find his true love married to a house carpenter. By promises of money and luxury h...
Sailor writes letter to his girl while he is at sea. Her father intercepts them so that the girl nev...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
A sailor asks a woman to marry him - she cannot. For seven years she was courted by a sailor, for se...
Girl meets a sailor while roaming one evening. He asks cause of her sorrow; it is for her dark-eyed ...
A young man is pressed into sailing by his girl's father's hand. They hit an awful storm while at s...