Add to ORKGA man tells of seeing and courting a girl while on shore leave from his ship. All's well until he runs into an old sailing buddy who mentions the courter's wife and kids. The girl gives him what he deserves. He leaves quickly, warning others of both pretty maidens and old sea comrades.Mercer: Bennett, 1973:7; Blondahl, 1964:108; Doyle, 1955:26; 1966:31; Fowke, 1973:132; Mills, 1968:32; Nolan, 1974:9; Peacock, 1965: 198
Woman goes to search for her bonnie Irish boy who left her to go to sea.Mercer: Laws ANNN, p. 26; Gr...
Sailor returns to his lover after being away for seven years. He tests her loyalty to her and when h...
Sailor goes ashore and does not get the girl.Laws, NAB, D25; Mercer: Leach, p. 224; Peacock, p. 218;...
Girl meets a sailor while roaming one evening. He asks cause of her sorrow; it is for her dark-eyed ...
Warning about courting for fun: sailor back at sea regrets what he has doneLehr, 1985, 12; Mercer, "...
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Warning about careless love - from male side: sailor returned to sea regrets what he has done.Lehr, ...
A stranger asks a girl to marry him. She refuses, saying she will be faithful to her sweetheart for ...
Sea captain is attracted to girl on shore and brings her on board his ship. She sings he and his men...
he was a good and honorable man and that if the trade was stopped he would give back all that he had...
Girl expresses her love for a sailor who has been at sea for seven years and refuses the offer of a ...
Sailor meets a girl at a dance and takes her home afterwards. A few days later he returns and asks h...
Girl explains to a sailor that she is weeping for her true love who left two years earlier. She show...
A man meets a beautiful maid who tells him that she's waiting for her love to return. He tells her ...
Woman goes to search for her bonnie Irish boy who left her to go to sea.Mercer: Laws ANNN, p. 26; Gr...
Sailor returns to his lover after being away for seven years. He tests her loyalty to her and when h...
Sailor goes ashore and does not get the girl.Laws, NAB, D25; Mercer: Leach, p. 224; Peacock, p. 218;...
Girl meets a sailor while roaming one evening. He asks cause of her sorrow; it is for her dark-eyed ...
Warning about courting for fun: sailor back at sea regrets what he has doneLehr, 1985, 12; Mercer, "...
Sailor meets young lady at a dance and falls in love; three days later he asks her father for her ha...
Prentice boy falls in love with a girl. She accepts his presents but he is told she has a sweetheart...
Warning about careless love - from male side: sailor returned to sea regrets what he has done.Lehr, ...
A stranger asks a girl to marry him. She refuses, saying she will be faithful to her sweetheart for ...
Sea captain is attracted to girl on shore and brings her on board his ship. She sings he and his men...
he was a good and honorable man and that if the trade was stopped he would give back all that he had...
Girl expresses her love for a sailor who has been at sea for seven years and refuses the offer of a ...
Sailor meets a girl at a dance and takes her home afterwards. A few days later he returns and asks h...
Girl explains to a sailor that she is weeping for her true love who left two years earlier. She show...
A man meets a beautiful maid who tells him that she's waiting for her love to return. He tells her ...
Woman goes to search for her bonnie Irish boy who left her to go to sea.Mercer: Laws ANNN, p. 26; Gr...
Sailor returns to his lover after being away for seven years. He tests her loyalty to her and when h...
Sailor goes ashore and does not get the girl.Laws, NAB, D25; Mercer: Leach, p. 224; Peacock, p. 218;...