Add to ORKGSailor meets young lady at a dance and falls in love; three days later he asks her father for her hand in marriage. Father agrees to the marriage, offers him money, land and a house, but insists that he stay on the shore "plowing the land" rather than the ocean.Mercer: Leach 1965:104; Peacock 1965:505, 507
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When father refuses to let his daughter marry the man she loves, she dresses as a man and buys his b...
Sailor turns down the offer of marriage from Little Mohee, an Indian girl, because he wishes to rema...
A sailor asks a woman to marry him - she cannot. For seven years she was courted by a sailor, for se...
Sailor meets a girl at a dance and takes her home afterwards. A few days later he returns and asks h...
A sailor proposes marriage and reassures his beloved that the fickleness of sailors is not a factor ...
Youth who loves freedom becomes a sailor. When his ship anchors in Bristol, he goes ashore and meets...
Prentice boy falls in love with a girl. She accepts his presents but he is told she has a sweetheart...
A West country girl sits by her cottage door and watches the ships go by. Her father asks if she is ...
Girl expresses her love for a sailor who has been at sea for seven years and refuses the offer of a ...
Song about false love. Sailor leaves his girlfriend while he's at sea, promising to marry her on his...
Man leaves his parents and sweetheart behind to go to sea. He meets a woman who offers him money if ...
A young lady was in love with a sailor, much to her father's dismay. The girl disguises herself and ...
Sailor promises to marry a farmer's daughter on his return from his last voyage at sea. His mother t...
Recitation: James, a sailor, tells his lover Flora he must go to sea. She decides to accompany him, ...
Warning about courting for fun: sailor back at sea regrets what he has doneLehr, 1985, 12; Mercer, "...
When father refuses to let his daughter marry the man she loves, she dresses as a man and buys his b...
Sailor turns down the offer of marriage from Little Mohee, an Indian girl, because he wishes to rema...
A sailor asks a woman to marry him - she cannot. For seven years she was courted by a sailor, for se...