Add to ORKGThe singer left home and met and courted a beautiful, wealthy youn woman. She promised to wait for him while he went to sea, but he met and married another woman in Douglas. The singer admits his guilt.see Leach, MacEdward "Folk Ballads and Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast", Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1965, p. 330 "The Girl I Left Behind"; Creighton, Helen, "Maritime Folk Songs", Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1961, p. 76 "The Girl I Left Behind"; Peacock, Kenneth, "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports", 1965, p. 449 "The Girl I Left Behind"
Man goes to sea and leaves his true love behind. She gives him a ring as a token of her love and whe...
Sailor goes ashore and does not get the girl.Laws, NAB, D25; Mercer: Leach, p. 224; Peacock, p. 218;...
A song in which the singer reminisces on the past - the years following his marriage to Maggie, thei...
Song about a sailor, Harry Rice. As he sits on a beach in Jamaica, he meets an innocent woman and th...
A song about a sailor, Harry Rice. Rice is sitting on the beach in Jamaica when a beautiful, innocen...
Man leaves his parents and sweetheart behind to go to sea. He meets a woman who offers him money if ...
Man leaves his parents and his sweetheart to travel. During his travels he meets a woman who persuad...
voice; guitarsCollected by Merlin Mitchell Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Tom Boyd Patrick, Ark Novem...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Captain of a Halifax boat moors in Forteau Bay and courts young Nelly. He promises her marriage and ...
Song regarding a man who met a "fair maiden" tending her flocks on the hills of Glenshee. He offered...
A young man murders a fair lady. Subsequently he goes to sea and her ghost haunts the ship. Willie, ...
Tells of the singer (an Irishman who immigrated to Newfoundland) and his courtship of a local St. Jo...
An exile is nostalgic for Newfoundland. He cannot return because a girl broke his heart there.Mercer...
voiceCollected and transcribed by Mary Celestia Parler Sting by Harrison Burnette Fayetteville, Arka...
Man goes to sea and leaves his true love behind. She gives him a ring as a token of her love and whe...
Sailor goes ashore and does not get the girl.Laws, NAB, D25; Mercer: Leach, p. 224; Peacock, p. 218;...
A song in which the singer reminisces on the past - the years following his marriage to Maggie, thei...
Song about a sailor, Harry Rice. As he sits on a beach in Jamaica, he meets an innocent woman and th...
A song about a sailor, Harry Rice. Rice is sitting on the beach in Jamaica when a beautiful, innocen...
Man leaves his parents and sweetheart behind to go to sea. He meets a woman who offers him money if ...
Man leaves his parents and his sweetheart to travel. During his travels he meets a woman who persuad...
voice; guitarsCollected by Merlin Mitchell Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Tom Boyd Patrick, Ark Novem...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Captain of a Halifax boat moors in Forteau Bay and courts young Nelly. He promises her marriage and ...
Song regarding a man who met a "fair maiden" tending her flocks on the hills of Glenshee. He offered...
A young man murders a fair lady. Subsequently he goes to sea and her ghost haunts the ship. Willie, ...
Tells of the singer (an Irishman who immigrated to Newfoundland) and his courtship of a local St. Jo...
An exile is nostalgic for Newfoundland. He cannot return because a girl broke his heart there.Mercer...
voiceCollected and transcribed by Mary Celestia Parler Sting by Harrison Burnette Fayetteville, Arka...
Man goes to sea and leaves his true love behind. She gives him a ring as a token of her love and whe...
Sailor goes ashore and does not get the girl.Laws, NAB, D25; Mercer: Leach, p. 224; Peacock, p. 218;...
A song in which the singer reminisces on the past - the years following his marriage to Maggie, thei...
