You Girls of Equal Station

DESCRIPTION: The singer asks "all you girls of equal station" for comfort for her sorrow "because I loved a lad." Though he promised to be true "to another girl he roved ... he has married for gold" Warning: "do not your mind reveal So that you can bid them farewell"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (Greig/Duncan6)
KEYWORDS: infidelity love promise money nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #97, pp. 1-2, "Ye Girls of Equal Station" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan6 1184, "Ye Girls of Equal Station" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Roud #5410
File: GrD61184

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