Bighted Gardener, The

DESCRIPTION: "I once kept a garden, Where the vegetables did grow," but he loves Sweet Mary Jones "far more than all My cabbages and my turniptops, My celery and my Brokelo." She served beer, and he courted her in the beer hall, but she married a sailor instead
AUTHOR: G. W. Hunt (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (FolkSongAndMusicHall)
KEYWORDS: love rejection sailor drink | gardener
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
BrighamYoungSongster, p. 47, "The Blighted Gardener, or 'Cabbages and Turniptops'" (1 text)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Blighted Gardener, The; Cabbages and Turniptops"
Roud #7966
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Broken-Hearted Gardener"
NOTES [18 words]: For the curious relationship of this song to "The Broken-Hearted Gardener," see the notes to that song. - RBW
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File: BrYS047

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