'New Ballad.' From the Adams manuscript, now in the possession of W.

Besides the three here described our collection has another version, without indication of source, date, or place.Ī. Stall texts (e.g., that in the Brown University Library, reprinted in BBM) sometimes end happily with the man relenting, but more commonly the story ends with the death of the lovesick lady. The ballad appears to have been widely known in this country since early in the last century the text reported from Vermont is from a local songbook of 1823, and the first of our North Carolina texts is from a manuscript of about the same date. The lady is not always Irish, and even when she is she sometimes comes from London.

A Brave Irish Lady įor the relation of this ballad to Child 295, 'The Brown Girl,' and for its occurrence in other collections, see BSM 111-12, and add to the references there given Virginia (FSV 44-5), Tennessee (JAFL XLV 53-4), North Carolina (FSRA 74-5), Florida (FSF 330), Arkansas (OFS i 209), Missouri (OFS I 205-8, 209-12), Indiana (BSI 164-5), Michigan (BSSM 250-1), and Wisconsin (JAFL LII 12-13).

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