Maid of Newfoundland, The

DESCRIPTION: The beauties of the maid are compared with the flowers, jewels, women of other lands, etc. The singer tells us that he met her in Labrador and will go far away if he cannot have her.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1904 (Murphy, Songs of Our Land, Old Home Week Souvenir)
KEYWORDS: love beauty exile
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland 118, "The Maid of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 372-374, "The Maid of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle-OldTimeSongsAndPoetryOfNewfoundland, "The Maid of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune): p. 21 in the 2nd edition
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 71, "The Maid of Newfoundland" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, MAIDNEWF
ADDITIONAL: James Murphy, compiler/publisher, "(Old Colony Song Book: Newfoundland)," James Murphy, 1904 (available from the Memorial University of Newfoundland web site; the cover is missing, but I suspect it is a copy of "Songs of Our Land"), p. 81, "The Maid of Newfoundland" (1 text)
James Murphy, editor, _Old Songs of Newfoundland_, James Murphy Publishing, 1912 (PDF available on the Memorial University of Newfoundland web site), p. 9, "The Maid of Newfoundland"
James Murphy, _Songs Their Fathers Sung: For Fishermen: Old Time Ditties_, James Murphy Publishing, 1923 (PDF available from the Memorial University of Newfoundland web site), p. 9, "The Maid of Newfoundland" (1 text)
Roud #4412
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best and Pamela Morgan, "The Maid on the Shore" (on NFABestPMorgan01)
Andrew Nash, "The Maid of Newfoundland" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
NOTES [19 words]: The song has a formulaic introduction by the singer who evokes the Muses to help sing praises to his beloved. - SH
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