Henry and Mary Ann (Henry the Sailor Boy)

DESCRIPTION: Mary Ann bids Henry to stay with her. He refuses, and also refuses her offer to come with him. He goes to sea, where he performs valiantly and saves the Captain's life. When he comes home, the Captain gives him fifty pounds; the couple get married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1853 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 26(246))
KEYWORDS: love separation sailor money
FOUND IN: Ireland Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Henry/Huntingdon/Herrmann-SamHenrysSongsOfThePeople H37, pp. 485-486, "Henry, the Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-WhereSongsDoThunder, pp. 96-97, "Henry and His Maryanne" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 899-900, "Young Henry" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-FolksongsFromSouthernNewBrunswick 32, "My Mary Ann" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
MidwestFolklore, Edith Fowke, "British Ballads in Ontario," Volume 13, Number 3 (Fall 1963/1964) pp. 153-154, "Mary Ann" (1 text)
Roud #2284
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 26(246), "Henry and Mary Ann," J. Moore (Belfast), 1846-1852; also Firth c.12(284), Firth b.27(353), "Henry and Mary Ann"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The River Roe" (tune)
cf. "Jeannette and Jeannott" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Firth c.12(284))
ALTERNATE TITLES:
My Mary Ann
NOTES [52 words]: Henry/Huntingdon/Herrmann-SamHenrysSongsOfThePeople, re the tune for "Henry, the Sailor Boy": "almost all the [Irish] murder songs were composed to it." The tune is close to the one used by A.L. Lloyd for the verse of "Paddy West" (on Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd, "Blow Boys Blow," Tradition TCD 1024 (1996)) - BS
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