Blue Flame, The

DESCRIPTION: "All under the stars, and beneath the green tree... A little blue flame, a-fluttering came." It comes to the cradle of the singer's baby, and steals the baby's soul away
AUTHOR: Words: Sabine Baring-Gould
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: death separation baby
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #67, "The Blue Flame" (1 text, 1 tune, the text non-traditional)
NOTES [79 words]: The notes in Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd seem to say that the tune of this was a version of "Rosemary Lane" [Laws K43], but that the text was too objectionable to print. For once, Baring-Gould wrote a song that had an actual plot worth mentioning, but it's still much too flowery. If he'd spent less time objecting to things, and more time printing what he actually collected, the world would probably be a better -- or at least more interesting -- place. - RBW
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