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Ballad Work - Roud Number: 1162

Titles:
Labouring boy
Bonny laboring boy
The lady's loyalty for her bonny labouring boy
My bonny labouring boy
The bonny labouring boy

First Lines:
As I rov'd out one morniog [sic] being in the blooming spring
As I roved out one evening, being in the blooming spring
As I roved out one morning it being the blooming spring
As I rov'd out one morning, being in a blooming spring
As I roved out one evening being in the blooming spring
As I roved out one morning, being in the blooming spring
As I rov'd out one morning, being in the blooming spring
As I roved out one morning

Subjects:
Plymouth (England)

Themes:
Cruel parents
Farmers
Unrequited love
Emigration
Social status
Courtship - difference in social status
Nobility

Ballad Work - Roud Number: 14

Titles:
A warning for married women

First Lines:
There dwelt a fair maid in the West

Subjects:
Plymouth (England)

Themes:
Ghosts

Edition - Bod9724

Imprint Names:  Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  Manchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: [T. Pearson,] Printer, [6, Chadderton] Street, Oldham Road, Manchester


Ballad - Roud Number: 1162

Title: Labouring boy

First Line: As I roved out one evening being in the blooming spring

Subjects:  Plymouth (England)

Themes:  Social statusCourtship - difference in social statusEmigrationNobility

Firth c.18(177)

Notes:  Imprint defaced Slip


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Edition - Bod23937

Imprint Names:  Norris, T.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1711 and 1732

Imprint: Printed for Tho. Norris at the Looking-glass on London- bridge


Ballad - Roud Number: 14

Title: A warning for married women

First Line: There dwelt a fair maid in the West

Tune: Fair maid of Bristol, or John True

References:

ESTC: R234087

Subjects:  Plymouth (England)

Themes:  Ghosts

Douce Ballads 2(249b)

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Ballad Work - Roud Number: 518

Titles:
The rambing [sic] sailor
The rambling sailor
The rambling miner
Rambling soldier
Rambling sailor
The rambling soldier

First Lines:
I am a soldier blithe and gay
I am a sailor stout and bold, long time I have crossed the ocean
I am a miner stout and bold
I am a sailor stout & bold long time I have ploughed the ocean
I am a soldier blythe and gay
I am a sailor stout and bold, long time I've plough'd the ocean
I am a sailor stout and bold, long time I have ploughed the ocean
I am a sailor stout & bold, long time I have ploughed the ocean
I am a sailor stout and bold
I am a sailor stout and bold, long time I've crossed the ocean

Subjects:
Plymouth (England)
Dover (England)
Woolwich (England)
Liverpool (England)
Greenwich (England)

Themes:
Sexual boasts
Sailors
Prostitution
Coalmines and mining
Soldiers
Naval

Edition - Bod14033

Imprint Names:  Pratt, W.

Imprint Locations:  Birmingham

Date  c.1850

Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham

Series Identifier: 372


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 3549

Title: Death of Nelson

First Line: O'er Nelson's tomb with silent grief oppress'd

Authors:  Arnold, Samuel James, 1774-1852

Subjects:  Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 1162

Title: Bonny laboring boy

First Line: As I roved out one evening, being in the blooming spring

Subjects:  Plymouth (England)

Themes:  Unrequited loveSocial status

Harding B 11(838)

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Johnson Ballads 1437

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Edition - Bod14030

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew street 7 Dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 3549

Title: The death of Nelson

First Line: O'er Nelson's tomb with silent grief opprest

Authors:  Arnold, Samuel James, 1774-1852

Subjects:  Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 518

Title: The rambling soldier

First Line: I am a soldier blythe and gay

Subjects:  Woolwich (England)Liverpool (England)Plymouth (England)Dover (England)

Themes:  Soldiers

Harding B 11(835)

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