One Evening So Clear

DESCRIPTION: "One morning so clear, In the meadows did pass, Her eye full of tear, A most beautiful lass." She asks, "O WIlliam... Why were you unkind? O why did you seek ANother than me?" She falls down in the grass and dies of love
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1888 (Baring Gould collection)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment betrayal death
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Gundry-CanowKernow-SongsDancesFromCornwall, p. 29, "One Evening So Clear" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3311
File: Gund029

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