Plymouth Sound (I)

DESCRIPTION: "O the fair town of Plymouth is by the sea-side, The Sound is so blue and so still and so wide." The town has no equal. The "maidens" are "comely and sweet." He can't marry them all; perhaps it's just as well he's going away
AUTHOR: Words: Sabine Baring-Gould
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: home music courting | Plymouth
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #54, "Plymouth Sound" (1 text, 1 tune, the text being non-traditional)
Roud #6911
File: BGSW054

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