Past Ten O'Clock

DESCRIPTION: "'Twas ten o'clock one moonlit night" when the singer's love comes tapping at the window. Her parents are awake; she dares not answer. Finally the parents fall asleep; she goes with her beau and they marry at ten o'clock the next morning
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1845 (Bodleian broadside Harding B 11(2500))
KEYWORDS: love mother father elopement nightvisit
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Forget-Me-Not-Songster, p. 128, "Ten O'Clock" (1 text)
Dime-Song-Book #3/72, p. 47 and #3/62, p. 47, "Ten o'Clock; or, Remember, Love, Remember" (1 text)
Roud #2674
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads fol. 16, "Remember, love, Remember," J. Catnach (London), c. 1825; also Harding B 11(1538), J. Catnach; also Johnson Ballads fol. 19, "Remember, love, remember," J. Catnach (1825); also Harding B 11(3762), "Ten o'clock or Remember, love, remember," J. Cadman (Manchester), 1850-1855; also Firth b.28(41a), "Remember, Love, Remember," W. King (Oxford), c. 1835; also Harding B 11(3761), "Ten O'clock, or, Remember, love, remember," W. F. Fortey (London), 1858-1885; also Johnson Ballads 607, "Ten o'clock love remember," E. M. A. Hodges (London), 1846-1858; also Harding B 11(3417), "Ten o'clock love remember," E. M. A. Hodges; also Harding B 11(1060), "Remember, love, remember," A. Swindells (Manchester), 1796-1853; also Harding B 11(2500), "Past ten o'clock, remember, love, remember," J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Firth b.27(67)=Harding B 11(3929)=Johnson Ballads 2939=Johnson Ballads 3376, "Remember love, remember," unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.17(416), "Ten o'clock or Remember love remember," W. Wright (Birmingham), 1820-1855; also Firth b.27(145), "Remember ten o'clock my dear," unknown, n.d.; also 2806 c.13(156), "Remember ten o'clock, my dear," J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Harding B 11(3252), "Remember ten o'clock my dear," unknown, n.d.
File: FMNS128

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