Banks of Brandywine, The [Laws H28]

DESCRIPTION: The singer (a sailor) meets a girl and asks her to forget her lover -- telling her first that her lover is probably untrue and then that he's already married to another. She faints; he reveals that he is the long-lost lover
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1856 (Thompson-APioneerSongster)
KEYWORDS: sailor disguise courting
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (10 citations):
Laws H28, "The Banks of Brandywine"
Thompson-APioneerSongster 37, "Banks of Brandywine" (1 text)
Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors, pp. 172-173, "The Banks of Brandywine" (1 text, 1 tune, composite)
Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 72, "The Banks of Brandywine" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Smith/Hatt/Fowke-SeaSongsBalladFromNineteenthCenturyNovaScotia, pp. 64-66, "The Banks of Brandywine" (1 text)
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs, pp. 62-63, "Banks of Brandywine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie-BalladsAndSeaSongsFromNovaScotia 71, "The Banks of Brandywine" (1 text)
Forget-Me-Not-Songster, pp. 158-160, "Bans of Brandywine" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #79, p. 6, "Banks of Brandywine" (3 references)
DT 811, BNKBRNDY
Roud #1970
BROADSIDES:
LOCSinging, sb10031a, "The Banks of Brandywine," J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also as100580, as100590, "The Banks of Brandywine"
VonWalthour, CDDrive>b>b(4),"Banks of Brandywine" ("One morning very early, in the pleasant month of May"), J. Andrews (New York), 1853-1859; also CDDrive>b>b(5),"Banks of Brandywine"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
NOTES [71 words]: Broadsides LOCSinging sb10031a and VonWalthour CDDrive>b>b(4) appear to be the same edition.
Broadsides LOCSinging as100590 and VonWalthour CDDrive>b>b(5) appear to be the same edition.
Broadside VonWalthour CDDrive>b>b(4) and Broadside LOCSinging sb10031a: J. Andrews dating per Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
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