Add to ORKGYoung man courts girl for three years but is unable to gain her. Decides to sail across the Spanish Main. When he returns, he marries another girl; first girl dies broken-hearted. They will answer for their sins on Judgement Day.Informant says this is a local composition
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Narrator, a Bonavista man, sees his girl with a bayman. They fight and narrator is beaten. Narrator ...
Girl is forced to leave house by her cruel aunt when she falls in love with a sailor. She goes to h...
The narrator roamed out one night when he saw a fair woman weeping for her lover lost over the sea. ...
The singer asks his lover - a gay Spanish maid - to meet him the night before he sails. However, a s...
Song: a young man confesses his sins to "Father Green". The "priest" turns out to be a soldier. The ...
Girl's lover tells her he has to go to sea. They arrange to meet on the beach. There is a storm in w...
A young man visits his sweetheart by night. He asks to join her in bed and she refuses. He has court...
Captain of a Halifax boat moors in Forteau Bay and courts young Nelly. He promises her marriage and ...
A young man is pressed into sailing by his girl's father's hand. They hit an awful storm while at s...
A young man murders a fair lady. Subsequently he goes to sea and her ghost haunts the ship. Willie, ...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
A young man is in love with a girl but their parents don't approve. His parents pick another girl fo...
A young man courts a bailiff's daughter. Disapproving of the match, his wealthy father sends him aw...
The singer courted a "fine young man" who was sentenced to be hanged. As he drew near the gallows a ...
Young man condemned to hang tells his own story of how he stabbed two maidens to death and thus must...
Narrator, a Bonavista man, sees his girl with a bayman. They fight and narrator is beaten. Narrator ...
Girl is forced to leave house by her cruel aunt when she falls in love with a sailor. She goes to h...
The narrator roamed out one night when he saw a fair woman weeping for her lover lost over the sea. ...