When I Was Young I Was Beloved

DESCRIPTION: The singer complains that she was once "beloved in all the young men's companie." Old now, "nae bonnie laddie will fancy me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1908 (Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast)
KEYWORDS: age courting nonballad oldmaid
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #20, p. 2, ("When I was young I was beloved") (1 fragment)
File: Grg020b

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