Youth and Folly (I)

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, youth and folly make young men marry, So fare you well, love, I'm going away. What can't be cured, love, must be endured." She cries and sighs and says she's broken hearted. But it can't be changed and must be endured
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1858 (CharleyFoxEthiopianSongster)
KEYWORDS: love separation
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
CharleyFoxEthiopianSongster, p. 7, "What Can't Be Cured" (1 text)
BillyMorrisSongs, pp. 49-50, "What Can't Be Cured" (1 text)
Cox-FolkSongsSouth 141, "Youth and Folly" (1 text, with many floating verses but such plot as it has derived from this song, it probably mixes "Peggy Gordon" and "Youth and Folly (I)")
Roud #44841
File: CFES007

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