You Lovers All, to You I Call

DESCRIPTION: "You lovers all, to you I call. A story I will tell; How I, a swain, courted in vain A maid none could excel." "I fell in love so hard to move... But to my grief found no relief, for she was pitiless." The singer praises his love's great beauty
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love beauty rejection
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 293, "You Lovers All, to You I Call" (1 text)
Roud #12200
File: Br3293

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