My Ain Dear Nell

DESCRIPTION: The singer remembers Nelly Brown and their youthful days together. "Ance mair then Nelly Brown I hae sung o' love and thee Tho' oceans wide between us row you're aye the same to me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan6)
KEYWORDS: age love separation nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan6 1253, "My Ain Dear Nell" (1 text)
Roud #6789
SAME TUNE:
Dunedin Town Board ("The streets here in Dunedin are now a sea of mud, This place is very much the same as 'twas before the flood") (by Charles R. Thatcher) (Anderson-ColonialMinstrel, p. 119)
File: GrD61253

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