Bold Daniels (The Roving Lizzie) [Laws K34]

DESCRIPTION: Bold Daniels and the "Roving Lizzie" meet a pirate ship which calls for their surrender. Though outnumbered, Daniels and the "Lizzie" fight so effectively that they capture the pirate and take it to (Baltimore) as a prize
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1890 (Erskine-TwentyYearsBeforeTheMast)
KEYWORDS: pirate battle ship
FOUND IN: US(MW,NE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (12 citations):
Laws K34, "Bold Daniels (The Roving Lizzie)"
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "BOLD DANIELS"
Rickaby-BalladsAndSongsOfTheShantyBoy 43, "Bold Daniel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 43, "Bold Daniel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dean-FlyingCloud, pp. 39-40, "Bold Daniel" (1 text)
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 257-259, "The Rovin' Lizzie" (1 text)
Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors, p. 47, "The Roving Lizzie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-FolkBalladsSongsOfLowerLabradorCoast 57, "Bold Daniel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Colcord-SongsOfAmericanSailormen, pp. 149-151, "Bold Daniels" (1 text)
Erskine-TwentyYearsBeforeTheMast, p. 5, "(Twas on the twenty-first of April, from Hampton Roads we sailed)" (1 text)
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 24, "Bold Daniels" (1 text, 1 tune; #24 in the first edition)
DT 567, BOLDDANL
Roud #1899
File: LK34

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