Lonesome Dove (II)

DESCRIPTION: Singer laments a lost love: "You've broken all your promises, Just marry whom you please." "The blackest crow that ever flew It surely will turn white." "Oh don't you see yon little dove?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Sharp)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal abandonment separation floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE,SW) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 262, "The Slighted Girl" (1 text)
Burton/Manning-EastTennesseeStateCollectionVol1, pp. 1-6-107, "Lonesome Dove" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart2 50, "Lonesome Dove"; "Lonesome Turtle Dove" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs, p. 85, "Do You See That There Bird On Yonder Tree?" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
DT, (LONEDOVE) (TUTRLDOV) (TURTDOV2) TURTDOV3
NOTES [112 words]: It's hard to decide if this is really a song or a collection of floating verses. The Brown text is interesting; it begins with a verse "You need not flirt nor flounce around. There's more pretty boys than one." Then it goes through the lost love routine, and concludes "Darling, darling, do hush up! I hate to hear you cry. As other friends are having to part, And why not you and I, my love, and why not you and I?" - RBW
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs is a one verse fragment, "Do you see that bird there on yonder tree." It belongs, as Creighton notes, to some song which, she speculates, may be "George Collins" ("Lady Alice," Child 85) but I'd rather just put it here. - BS
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