Sailor's Tear, The

DESCRIPTION: A sailor thinks of his wife and baby and friends at home and has a tear in his eye. They had watched him leave from a cliff and he had a tear in his eye then. He has no tear when the foe approaches.
AUTHOR: F. W. H. Bayley (?) (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: before 1830 (broadside Bodleian Bod18634 Harding B 25(1715))
KEYWORDS: derivative love battle navy war baby friend wife sailor
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 201, "The Sailor's Tear" (1 text, 1 tune)
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, p. 97, "The Sailor's Tear" (1 text)
Roud #13884
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Bod18634 Harding B 25(1715), "The sailor's tear" ("He leap'd into the boat"), T. Birt (London), 1828-1829; also Bod5789 Harding B 11(1357), Bod12403 Harding B 11(228A), "The sailor's's tear"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Soldier's Tear" (source of this adaptation)
File: FJSB201

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