Yonder Comes My Dearest Billie

DESCRIPTION: "Yonder comes my dearest Billie I know him by his coat of blue," his coal black hair and good behavior. The singer loves father and mother but loves Billie better: "if you turn him out I'll take him in." In a meadow she fills her apron with flowers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart2)
KEYWORDS: love flowers floatingverses nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart2 57, "Yonder Comes My Dearest Billie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7009
NOTES [60 words]: Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart2 may be a collection of floating verses and parts of verses. The apron-filling is also in "Died for Love," Christie's "The Prickly Rose," and Henry's "The Apron of Flowers." Her lover's coal black hair is reminiscent of the blue-jacketed "The Dark-Eyed Sailor." Loving father and mother is in, among others, "Careless Love." - BS
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