Were You Ever in Dumbarton?

DESCRIPTION: "Were you ever in Dumbarton, Where they wear the tartan (x2), little above the knee.... My love she is so neat and small, She won't have me at all (x2), But try to get her full and then she'll marry me... Oh, if I had her, happy I would be."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1971
KEYWORDS: courting clothes travel love
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Doerflinger-SongsOfTheSailorAndLumberman, pp. 307-308, "Were You Ever in Dumbarton?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9421
File: Doe307

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