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Book Title | Author | Date | Notes |
Song Title | Rich gentleman's daughter |
Roud No. | 21209 |
Collected From | Godwin, Sarah A. Miss |
Location | Southrop |
County | Gloucestershire |
Collected By | Williams, Alfred |
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Source Primary | WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 2 - Gloucestershire: Williams, A: MS collection No Gl 156 |
Source Secondary | Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 19th February, 1916, p 3, Part 19, No. 11 |
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Verse 1 It's of a rich gentleman in London did dwell, He had a young daughter a farmer loved so well; His parents being so cruel, and to him severe, They sent him to a foreign land for seven long years. Verse 2 He had not been gone but a month and one day When he wrote a letter and sent it away; An answer came back with haste and great speed, Saying - "My love, I will come to you, wherever you may be." [hyphen] Verse 3 As one was going up and the other going down, The damsel being a-tired she sat herself down; And with her deep sighing her tender heart did break, So she died for her true love, her true lover's sake. Verse 4 Now when that young man got to his journey's end, He called for a bottle to drink with a friend; They asked of that young man, that which was sent abroad, And told him of the poor girl that died on the road. Verse 5 As soon as he heard the news he desired the corpse for to see, As soon as he saw her he said, "It is for me; For me and me only, the only love I have, Let me and my true love lie both in one grave." Verse 6 So all that long night, and part of the next day, He kissed her cold cheeks, much colder than clay; And with a deep sighing his tender heart did break, So he died for his true love, his true lover's sake. Verse 7 Come all you cruel parents, wherever you may be, You should never part lovers, as lovers parted were we; For what we have suffered, this world shall never know, What I and my true love, we both have been through. | |
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Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'This is one of the old sort, by which I mean it is really in the common ballad singer's style. I have heard of it twice, i.e. at South Marston and Southrop, where I obtained the words complete of Miss Sarah Godwin.' Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010. |
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