Lizzie Watson

DESCRIPTION: "Miss Lizzie Watson is my name, I brought myself to grief and shame, By loving one that neer loved me." The time when they were to be marred has passed; he avoids her. She intends to drown herself. Dig her grave both wide and deep
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1969 (Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol3)
KEYWORDS: love courting abandonment death suicide drowning floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol3, pp. 50-51, "Lizzie Watson" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7037
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] and references there
NOTES [36 words]: This is essentially "The Butcher Boy" or "Died for Love (I)" with a first verse in which the singer gives her name, but that's enough difference that both Steve Roud and I consider it a (sort of) separate song. - RBW
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File: BWV3051

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