Will Ray

DESCRIPTION: "Oh Papa, dear Papa, please tell to me Just what you think of Will Ray." The father tells the girl to marry banker John Burns instead of poor Will. The daughter points out that Burns has just gone bankrupt and Ray become rich; the father relents
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1936 (Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi, Neely/Spargo-TalesAndSongsOfSouthernIllinois)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage money father lover children
FOUND IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 135, pp. 281-282, "Will Ray" (1 text)
Neely/Spargo-TalesAndSongsOfSouthernIllinois, pp. 176-178, "Will Ray" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4317
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Billy Grimes the Rover" (plot)
cf. "Peggy in the Morning" (plot)
NOTES [29 words]: This looks to me very much like an elaboration of "Billy Grimes the Rover." But the plot about John Burns is not normal to that piece, so I have tentatively separated them. - RBW
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File: Hud135

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