Add to ORKGThe singer courted a "fine young man" who was sentenced to be hanged. As he drew near the gallows a clergyman halted the proceedings to hear his confession. The young man gave his suitor a ring of gold to remember him by and shared some last words with her brother. Where is his sweetheart - is she ashamed? He was to have died at sunrise - his sweetheart, Ann O'Neil, brings his pardon
Man is forced to marry a woman he doesn't love so he kills her and now he must hang for his crime
Young man condemned to hang tells his own story of how he stabbed two maidens to death and thus must...
A young man courts a bailiff's daughter. Disapproving of the match, his wealthy father sends him aw...
Her sweetheart was a bold undaunted youth as he rode to the gallows. The prosecutor despises him, b...
voice; guitarsCollected by Joe Moore Sung by Mrs. Frank Weddington For M. C. Parler Beaver, Arkansas...
A young man is in love with a girl but their parents don't approve. His parents pick another girl fo...
Pat O'Reilly said farewell to his lover Nance McCartney before he went to sea. She went to a judge a...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Ballad about a girl abandonned by her lover. Describes the pleasures of their early courtship and ho...
voice; guitarsCollected by Marvin Wallace For Mary C. Parler Transcribed by Frances Majors Sung by B...
The narrator was courted for three years in London by a bonny Irish boy. He left her and when she fo...
Francis McCanning, a foreigner, brought a girl to Newfoundland to be his servant. He was enraged whe...
At the age of 21, the narrator was a gentleman's servant. He fell in love with his master's daughter...
James promises to marry Annie, who is pregnant, and asks her to meet him secretly. When they are alo...
When her parents discover her love for Johnny Doyle, the heroine is locked in her bedroom. When she ...
Man is forced to marry a woman he doesn't love so he kills her and now he must hang for his crime
Young man condemned to hang tells his own story of how he stabbed two maidens to death and thus must...
A young man courts a bailiff's daughter. Disapproving of the match, his wealthy father sends him aw...
Her sweetheart was a bold undaunted youth as he rode to the gallows. The prosecutor despises him, b...
voice; guitarsCollected by Joe Moore Sung by Mrs. Frank Weddington For M. C. Parler Beaver, Arkansas...
A young man is in love with a girl but their parents don't approve. His parents pick another girl fo...
Pat O'Reilly said farewell to his lover Nance McCartney before he went to sea. She went to a judge a...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Ballad about a girl abandonned by her lover. Describes the pleasures of their early courtship and ho...
voice; guitarsCollected by Marvin Wallace For Mary C. Parler Transcribed by Frances Majors Sung by B...
The narrator was courted for three years in London by a bonny Irish boy. He left her and when she fo...
Francis McCanning, a foreigner, brought a girl to Newfoundland to be his servant. He was enraged whe...
At the age of 21, the narrator was a gentleman's servant. He fell in love with his master's daughter...
James promises to marry Annie, who is pregnant, and asks her to meet him secretly. When they are alo...
When her parents discover her love for Johnny Doyle, the heroine is locked in her bedroom. When she ...
Man is forced to marry a woman he doesn't love so he kills her and now he must hang for his crime
Young man condemned to hang tells his own story of how he stabbed two maidens to death and thus must...
A young man courts a bailiff's daughter. Disapproving of the match, his wealthy father sends him aw...