Christine Leroy [Laws H31]

DESCRIPTION: The dying singer tells how happy her marriage was -- until beautiful Christine Leroy showed up and stole her husband. Now "you can tell then they murdered me, brother; God forgive him [her husband] and Christine Leroy"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939
KEYWORDS: death infidelity husband wife
FOUND IN: US(Ap,So,MW,Ro)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Laws H31, "Christine Leroy"
Randolph 797, "Christine Leroy" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 509-511, "Christine Leroy" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 797A)
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp.189-190, "Christine LeRoy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 237, 243-244, "No, Brother, I'll Never Be Better" (1 text)
Wolfe/Boswell-FolkSongsOfMiddleTennessee 48, pp. 82-83, "Christine Leroy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 654, CRSLEROY*
Roud #2193
NOTES [54 words]: Cheney-MormonSongs, following Rosalie Sorrels, links his version to Mormon polygamy: The singer of the song is not an abandoned wife but one who sees her husband intent on taking a second wife. There is nothing in the song as printed by Cheney to forbid this, but I don't think that was the original intent of the song. - RBW
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File: LH31

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