Add to ORKGSailor returns to his lover after being away for seven years. He tests her loyalty to her and when he learns that she has been faithful he reveals his identity by producing half of a ring which he had broken in two before he left.Mercer: Laws, ABBB, N42, pp. 224-5; Peacock p, 584 ("Seven Years I Loved a Sailor"); Abrahams & Foss, p. 117-8
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Soldier returns from war and tests his lover. Tells her that her man was killed by the French and di...
Sailor promises to marry maiden when he returns. She meanwhile proves false and marries another man....
A stranger asks a girl to marry him. She refuses, saying she will be faithful to her sweetheart for ...
Girl expresses her love for a sailor who has been at sea for seven years and refuses the offer of a ...
A sailor asks a woman to marry him - she cannot. For seven years she was courted by a sailor, for se...
Sailor returns to his lover, Caroline, after seven years at sea. She demands that he show her the go...
A woman waited seven years for her lover. The narrator suggests he may be sick, married, or even dea...
Girl explains to a sailor that she is weeping for her true love who left two years earlier. She show...
Song about false love. Sailor leaves his girlfriend while he's at sea, promising to marry her on his...
Girl meets a sailor while roaming one evening. He asks cause of her sorrow; it is for her dark-eyed ...
Sailor meets a girl at a dance and takes her home afterwards. A few days later he returns and asks h...
Sailor returns to find his true love married to a house carpenter. By promises of money and luxury h...
Soldier returns from war and tests his lover. Tells her that her man was killed in France. Her lamen...
Sailor writes letter to his girl while he is at sea. Her father intercepts them so that the girl nev...
A man tells of seeing and courting a girl while on shore leave from his ship. All's well until he ru...
Soldier returns from war and tests his lover. Tells her that her man was killed by the French and di...
Sailor promises to marry maiden when he returns. She meanwhile proves false and marries another man....