Ye Maidens Fair and Gay

DESCRIPTION: "Never let a young man Lead you astray." The singer "believed man's flattering tongue ... He has ruined me ... Nowhere to go ... Now not a straw"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan6)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad poverty
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan6 1185, "Ye Maidens Fair and Gay" (1 text)
Roud #6808
NOTES [20 words]: Greig/Duncan6: "Mrs Willox, Peterhead, from her mother -- eighty-six who heard it some seventy years ago." [c.1914] - BS
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File: GrD61185

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