My Love's a Plooman

DESCRIPTION: "My love is a ploughman and follows the plough." The singer has promised the ploughman that she will love him. She says she will be true and never rue her promise.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Greig/Duncan3)
KEYWORDS: farming love promise
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #130, p. 1, "The Plooman Laddie" (1 fragment: only the first verse)
Greig/Duncan3 446, "My Love's a Plooman" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #5957
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Plooman Laddie (I)" (llyrics)
NOTES [33 words]: Greig #135, p. 3, explains that a correspondent says the first verse of his composite "The Plooman Laddie" is from a different song. This is the verse printed in Greig/Duncan3 [also verse 1 of Ord]. - BS
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