Lost Jimmie Whalen [Laws C8]

DESCRIPTION: A passerby hears a girl wailing for her lost Jimmie Whalen. He comes from the grave, and she begs him to stay. He cannot; death keeps them apart.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (Rickaby-BalladsAndSongsOfTheShantyBoy)
KEYWORDS: death ghost lover
FOUND IN: US(MW,NE) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont)
REFERENCES (20 citations):
Laws C8, "Lost Jimmie Whalen"
Rickaby-BalladsAndSongsOfTheShantyBoy 4, "The Lost Jimmie Whalen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 4, "The Lost Jimmie Whalen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-TheBalladBook, pp. 726-727, "Lost Jimmie Whalen" (1 text)
Leach-HeritageBookOfBallads, pp. 177-179, "Lost Jimmie Whalen" (1 text)
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 445-446, "The Lost Jimmie Whalen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 48, "Jimmie Whalen's Girl" (1 text)
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, pp. 139-141, "Jimmie Whalen's Girl" (1 text)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 79, "Jimme Whalen's Girl" (1 text)
Fowke-LumberingSongsFromTheNorthernWoods #32, "Lost Jimmy Whelan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/MacMillan-PenguinBookOfCanadianFolkSongs 26, "Lost Jimmy Whelan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Vikár/Panagapka-SongsNorthWoodsSungByOJAbbott29, "Lost Jimmy Whelan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior-TraditionalSongsOfNovaScotia, pp. 186-187, "Lost Jimmie Whalen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs, pp. 114-115, "Lost Jimmy Whalan" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Peacock, pp. 385-389, "Jimmy Whelan" (2 texts, 4 tunes)
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 61, "Jimmy Whelan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland, pp. 35-37,249, "The Lost Jimmy Whalen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Manny/Wilson-SongsOfMiramichi 81, "The Lost Jimmie Whalen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams/Foss-AngloAmericanFolksongStyle, pp. 27-28, "Lost Jimmy Walen" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 602, JIMWHEL* JIMWHEL2*
Roud #2220
RECORDINGS:
Mrs John Coughlin, "The Lost Jimmy Whalen" (on MREIves01)
Mrs Mary Dumphy, "The Lost Jimmie Whalen" (on NFMLeach); "Jimmy Whalen" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
Mrs. Mary Ann Galpin, "Jimmy Whelan" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
Ken Peacock, "Jimmy Whalen" (on NFKPeacock)
Art Thieme, "Lost Jimmy Whalen" (on Thieme05)
Robert Walker, "The Lost Jimmie Whalen" (on USWolfRiver)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "James Whalen" [Laws C7] (subject)
File: LC08

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