I Am a Young Lassie Just Out o' My Teens

DESCRIPTION: The singer says "in the choice o' a sweetheart I displeased a' my friens." All her sweethearts have left her "but the young blackamore"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan7)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad Black(s)
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan7 1347, "I Am a Young Lassie Just Out o' My Teens" (1 short text)
Roud #7228
NOTES [46 words]: The current description is based on the single Greig/Duncan7 verse.
Greig/Duncan7, specifically Greig not later than 1914, quoting Bell Robertson's Song Notes: "I got it about fifty-four or fifty-five [years ago] from a woman about mother's age with whom I was working." - BS
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File: GrD71347

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