Here Come Two True-Lovers

DESCRIPTION: Singing game. "Here come two true-lovers, Joined heart and hand, He wants a wife, And she wants a man. Now if they are kind-hearted," they will wed. Now he must go to war, and she cries "If he does leave me I surely will die"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest)
KEYWORDS: playparty love marriage separation war
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 70-71, "(Here come two true-lovers)" (1 text)
NOTES [24 words]: I feel as if this is made up of bits and pieces of several singing games, but since I can't identify a predominant one, it gets its own entry. - RBW
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File: GFGW070

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