Rose o' Dundee

DESCRIPTION: "Early one Monday morning as I walked Dundee street," the singer meets a beautiful girl whom he labels the Rose o' Dundee. He offers to watch over her. She says she has another man. The other man, a sailor, appears, and sailor and girl live happily
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1986 (Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty sailor rejection
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee 64, "Rose o' Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V4975
NOTES [57 words]: Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee puts this to the tune that old war horse "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah)" [Laws M31A/B], which clearly fits but is not listed as the original tune. But several lines in the song are more reminiscent of "Willie Archer (The Banks of the Bann)"; if there was an original tune, I suspect that was it. - RBW
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File: Gath064

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