My Lad's a Sailor

DESCRIPTION: "My lad's a sailor ... he's going to marry me." In twenty-five days "I'll trim my hat wi' velvet, and gie my lad a dram"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan8)
KEYWORDS: marriage clothes drink nonballad sailor
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan8 1582, "My Lad's a Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13504
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Five-and-Twenty Masons" (tune, per Greig/Duncan8)
File: GrD81582

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