Oh How Can I Leave You

DESCRIPTION: The singer loves Liza and "long[s] for the day I can call you my own" He remembers a May meeting "when with you I sported among the new hay" and "a lone winter's evening" when "your smiles made me cheery"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1907 (Greig/Duncan4)
KEYWORDS: courting love nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan4 713, "Eliza" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #6155
NOTES [15 words]: Greig/Duncan4 quoting Greig: "Said to be by Dr. [James] Robertson of Ellon [1803-1860]." - BS
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File: GrD4713

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