Old Woman Clothed in Grey

DESCRIPTION: "An old woman clothed in grey, Whose daughter was charming and one, Chanc'd to be once led astray By Roger's false flattering tongue." The daughter gets pregnant. The mother demands Roger marry her, and gives him houses and lands in exchange
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1859 (Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime)
KEYWORDS: mother children pregnancy sex marriage bargaining age miller
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 455-456, "An Old Woman Clothed in Grey" (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
Chappell/Wooldridge-OldEnglishPopularMusic, pp. 120-121, "An Old Woman Clothed in Grey" (1 tune)
Roud #1694
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.33(55), "An old woman cloathed in grey," unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.18(225), "The old Woman clothed in grey," unknown, n.d.; Harding B 25(1419) (apparently a cut-up version of the preceding); Douce Ballads 3(137), "The old woman cloathed in grey," unknown, n..
NOTES [32 words]: Very many of the references to this song seem to be to the tune only, presumably because of its rough subject matter. Note that none of the broadsides in the Bodleian list a printer's name! - RBW
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