Wife o' My Ain, A

DESCRIPTION: The singer is going home after rambling to marry Ailie. Her mother favors wealthy Geordie Steele. "But if that my Ailee prove faithless, and marry before I return ... Awa' straight to some other beauty, without loss o' time I will hie"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (Greig/Duncan4)
KEYWORDS: courting return separation humorous mother
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan4 709, "A Wife o' My Ain" (1 text)
Roud #6149
File: GrD4709

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