Oh, Where Is My Sweetheart?

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, where is my sweetheart? Can anyone tell? (x3) Can anyone, anyone tell?" "He is flirting with another, I know very well." "He told me he loved me, he told me a lie." "I've found me another I love just as well." "...I love him, I wish he was mine."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love courting betrayal
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 303, "Oh, Where Is My Sweetheart?" (2 text plus an excerpt)
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 89, "Oh, Where Is My Sweetheart?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11319
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Farewell He" (subject) and references there
File: Br3303

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