Sweet Forget-Me-Not

DESCRIPTION: "Fancy brings a thought to me, A flower rich and rare, Of grace and beauty both combined, A fadeless flower rare." The singer recalls courting his beautiful love. In time, he proposes and they happily marry. They dwell in a cot with a forget-me-not
AUTHOR: Bobby Newcomb (1877) (source: MUNFLA/Leach)
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: love courting flowers home
FOUND IN: US(SE) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 727, "Sweet Forget-Me-Not" (1 short text, 1 tune)
DT, FGETMNOT*
ADDITIONAL: Norm Cohen, "Henry J. Wehman and Cheap Print in Late Nineteenth-Century America" -- essay found in David Atkinson and Steve Roud, Editors, _Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Tradition_, Ashgate, 2014, p. 151, "Sweet Forget-Me-Not" (copy of Wehman song print #17)
Roud #15485
RECORDINGS:
Vince Ledwell, "Sweet Forget Me Not" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
Marge Steiner, "Sweet Forget-Me-Not" (on Steiner01)
File: BrS5727

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