Night Her Blackest Sables Wore, The

DESCRIPTION: "The night her blackest sables wore, All gloomy were the skies.... When at her father's gate I knocked, where I had often been... The fair one let me in." She gets pregnant, but he "wedded and conceal'd the crime"
AUTHOR: Words: Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723) / Music: Thomas Farmer (source: Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime)
EARLIEST DATE: 1719 (Pills to Purge Melancholy)
KEYWORDS: love courting sex pregnancy marriage
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 509-511, "The Fair One Let Me In" (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
Chappell/Wooldridge-OldEnglishPopularMusic, pp. 34-35, "The Fair One Let Me In" (1 tune)
Roud #8645
File: CPMNHBSW

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