Smuggler's Bride, The

DESCRIPTION: "Attention give and a tale I'll tell, Of a damsel fair in Kent did dwell... She fell deep in love with a smuggler bold." She goes to sea with him. A cutter finds them after a storm. They are killed at almost the same moment and die in each others' arms
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1888 (Ashton-Modern Street Ballads)
KEYWORDS: love courting ship death
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 31, "The Smuggler's Bride" (1 text, tune referenced; #27 in the first edition)
Roud #21894
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Female Smuggler" (lyrics, theme)
File: Fran030

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