Willow Tree (VI), The

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, take me in your arms, my love, for keen the wind doth blow... for bitter is my woe. She hears me not, she cares me not.... While here I lie, alone to die, beneath the willow tree. She is rich; he once was; but his gold is lost and she no longer cares
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1813 (Bodleian broadsides Firth b.25(210), Firth c.18(97), Harding B 25(2076))
KEYWORDS: love money rejection death
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Forget-Me-Not-Songster, p. 137, "The Willow" (1 text)
Roud #3294
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(210), Firth c.18(97), Harding B 25(2076), "The Willow Tree," J. Evans (London), 1780-1812; also Harding B 28(155), Harding B 28(269), "Willow Tree," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 36(22), T. Wilknson (Manchester), n.d.; also 2806 c.13(5)=2806 c.13(190), Firth b.25(426)=Harding B 11(4079), J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; Harding B 11(1418), "The Willow Tree", E. M. A. Hodges (London), 1840-1854; Harding B 11(1189), Harding B 11(1190), Harding B 15(386b), "The Wilow Tree," H. Such (London), 1849-1862; Harding B 11(794), "The Willow Tree," T. Birt (London), 1833-1841; Harding B 15(386a), Johnson Ballads 1938, Johnson Ballads 1939, "The Willow Tree," J. Wheeler (Manchester), c. 1837; Harding B 25(2074), "The Willow Tree," Angus (Newcastle), 1774-1825; Johnson Ballads 2948, "Willow Tree," unknown, n.d.; 2806 c.18(337), "The Willow Tree," J. K. Pollock (North Shields), 1815-1855
NOTES [20 words]: Very rare in tradition (understandably, because it's not very good), but extremely common in broadsides and songsters. - RBW
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File: FMNS137

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