Young Shepherd (I), The

DESCRIPTION: A shepherd courts "a rich merchant's daughter." Her father shoots the shepherd. She finds him dying. She puts on his hat and plaid and keeps his sheep; "her father shall die For the loss of his daughter and the murder besides"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1954 (Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs)
KEYWORDS: love homicide cross-dressing dying sheep father shepherd
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar) Britain(England(North),Scotland)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs, p. 108, "The Young Shepherd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland, pp. 104-105,255, "The Shepherd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-21FolksongsFromPrinceEdwardIsland, pp. 31-32,83, "The Shepherd" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #103, p. 1, "The Squire's Daughter" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan2 223, "The Unfortunate Shepherdess" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Hamer-GreenGroves, pp. 64-65, "The Wandering Shepherdess" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1151
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:046, "The Unfortunate Shepherdess," James Lindsay Jr. (Glasgow), 19C
ALTERNATE TITLES:
In the County of Exeter
NOTES [42 words]: Greig: "This pastoral ditty seems to hail originally from England, and has likely found its way north per some broadside."
Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland and Ives-21FolksongsFromPrinceEdwardIsland are the same July 14, 1963 performance. - BS
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File: CrMa108

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