For the Orange and Blue

DESCRIPTION: "I was into a cat with laquer And I didna min on you Or I never wad forsake you For the orange and blue ... She's changed the green and yellow For the orange and blue"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #72, p. 2, ("For the orange and blue") (1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan8 1838, "For the Orange and Blue" (1 fragment)
Roud #13607
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Stone and Lime" ("change the green and yellow for the orange and blue") and references there
File: GrD81838

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