Buffer, Don't You Cry for Me

DESCRIPTION: "What ups and downs and bobberies, what changes we do see"; life changes quickly. The singer is "doomed for seven years" because he "took a gemman's ticker." He bids farewell to many. He bids farewell to Hannah and says how much he loves her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland); Anderson dates his broadside c. 1830
KEYWORDS: crime transportation separation
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 75-76, "Buffer, Don't You Cry for Me" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 8, "Buffer, Don't You Cry for Me" (1 text, with tune on p. 534)
Roud #V47334
NOTES [42 words]: Anderson does not mention any tune that was indicated for this, but it looks to me as if it was "Oh! Susanna."
In the Royal Navy, "buffer" was a term for the chief bosun's mate. I don't know if that is the meaning here, but I thought I'd mention it. - RBW
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