Within a Garden

DESCRIPTION: "Within a garden a maiden lingered, When soft the shades of evening fell"; she waits for her lover to say farewell before he goes over the sea. He has been gone for years; still she visits the "trysting tree"
AUTHOR: Words: H. Fleetwood Sheppard
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: love separation sailor
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #105, "Within a Garden" (1 text, 1 tune, the text rewritten)
NOTES [48 words]: This is yet another of the bathetic rewrites in Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd; from their notes, it appears the tune probably belonged to "Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden; The Broken Token)" [Laws N42], although it might be one of the other broken token ballads. - RBW
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File: BGSW105

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