Country Farmer's Son, The (Sweet Nelly My Heart's Delight)

DESCRIPTION: "Sweet (Nelly/Nancy), my heart's delight, Be loving, and do not slight." The singer asks her to fancy him "Though I'm but a farmer's son." She rejects him. He reveals that he has wealth. She says he does not -- but still consents to court him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1729 (Vocal Miscellany, according to Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland)
KEYWORDS: love courting money lie rejection
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Dixon-AncientPoemsBalladsSongsOfThePeasantryOfEngland, Song #4, pp. 171-173,245, "The Farmer's Son" (1 text)
Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland, pp. 366-368, "The Farmer's Son" (1 text)
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 656-657, "Sweet Nelly, My Heart's Delight" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chappell/Wooldridge-OldEnglishPopularMusic II, pp. 125-126, "Sweet Nelly, My Heart's Delight" (1 text, 1 tune)
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #69, "The Country Farmer's Son" (1 text, 1 tune, rewritten to take out most of the plot)
ST BeCo366 (Partial)
Roud #8506
File: BeCo366

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