Poor Strange Girl, The (The Forsaken Girl)

DESCRIPTION: "Willy, O Willy, for your sake alone, I left my own country, and likewise my home... I am a poor strange girl, and far from my home." Floating lost love lyrics: He made her a promise. She will leave Kentucky. "Go build me a castle on yon mountain high"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2)
KEYWORDS: love courting abandonment travel floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2, pp. 69-70, "The Poor Strange Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7032
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Down in the Valley" ("Go build me a castle" lyric)
cf. "Poor Stranger, The (Two Strangers in the Mountains Alone)" ("O X, O X, it's for your sake alone" lyric and others)
cf. "The Lost Girl" (lyrics)
cf. "Charming Beauty Bright" [Laws M3] ("Don't you remember last ...day night" lyric)
cf. "The Sweet Sunny South (I)" [Laws A23] ("Here's adieu to old [somewhere]" lyric)
NOTES [68 words]: Almost every word of this occurs in some other song. But there are so many floating lyrics, from so many places, that it's hard to call it a version of some individual other song. I finally gave up trying to find all the source texts. It's just a jumble -- and so gets its own listing. If I had to file it with one other song, it would probably be "The Poor Stranger (Two Strangers in the Mountains Alone)." - RBW
Last updated in version 6.0
File: BWV2069

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