Oh What Care I for Your Weel-Made Beds

DESCRIPTION: "O what care I for your weel-made beds, Or gold rings to adore me? Weel micht I been a maiden the streen Gin Lord Huntly had never seen me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1907 (Greig/Duncan6)
KEYWORDS: sex rejection
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan6 1265, "Oh What Care I for Your Weel-Made Beds" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6794
NOTES [30 words]: The current description is all of the Greig/Duncan6 fragment. - BS
My gut tells me this is derived, somehow, from "The Gypsy Laddie" [Child 200], but I can offer no evidence. - RBW
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File: GrD61265

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