Sylvia Sweet as Morning Air

DESCRIPTION: "Sylvia/Cicely sweet, the morning is far, Wilt thou drive me to despair?" He asks, "Wilt thou be mine?, or No?" She turns him away. He says mother will sell "do a deal for thee." All his offers are rejected. She tells him to "Go for a booby go."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1870 (Halliwell); Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd says it was in Dale's Collection of c. 1790
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection mother
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #35, Cicely Sweet" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6908
File: BGSW035

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