Lines on the Death of Captain Smith C. Spurling

DESCRIPTION: "Come friends and neighbors, lend an ear, A mournful story you shall hear, Concerning of a brisk young man...." He took his boat out; it capsizes, and he drowns. Listeners are warned that God comes for everyone
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: death separation
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 297-298, "Lines on the Death of Captain Smith C. Spurling" (1 text)
NOTES [52 words]: Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine claims that many people could remember fragments of this. I wonder -- so much of it is commonplace that their memories could easily come from other songs. So, although I've marked this as found in Maine based on the Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine claim, I'm a bit dubious. - RBW
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File: EcSm297

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