Caroline of Edinborough Town [Laws P27]

DESCRIPTION: Caroline's parents do not approve of her suitor Henry, so the two of them run off to London to be married. It is not long before her husband grows sick of her, abuses her, and goes off to sea. After some wandering, she drowns herself in the sea
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(3065))
KEYWORDS: courting elopement abuse abandonment separation suicide
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Britain(England(South),Scotland(Aber)) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES (33 citations):
Laws P27, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (Laws gives a broadside text on pp. 91-92 of ABFBB)
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "CAROLINE OF EDINBURGH TOWN"
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #70, p. 1, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town"; #72, p. 2, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text plus 1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan6 1151, "Caroline o' Edinburgh Toon" (9 texts, 5 tunes)
Williams-Wiltshire-WSRO Mi 543, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text)
Randolph 50, "Caroline of Edinborough Town" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Moore/Moore-BalladsAndFolkSongsOfTheSouthwest 75, "Caroline of Edinborough Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy-BalladsAndSongsFromOhio 59, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 13, "Caroline of Edinburg (sic.) Town" (1 text)
Dean-FlyingCloud, p. 53, "Caroline of Edinburg Town" (1 text)
Flanders/Ballard/Brown/Barry-NewGreenMountainSongster, pp. 79-83, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Linscott-FolkSongsOfOldNewEngland, pp. 183-185, "Caroline of Edinboro Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 69, "Caroline of Edinboro' Town" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 16, "Caroline from Edinboro Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie-BalladsAndSeaSongsFromNovaScotia 28, "Caroline of Edinboro Town" (1 text)
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs, pp. 99-100, "Caroline of Edinborough Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Henry/Huntingdon/Herrmann-SamHenrysSongsOfThePeople H148, pp. 411-412, "Blooming Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morton/Maguire-ComeDayGoDayGodSendSunday 28, pp. 70-71,115,167-168, "Blooming Caroline from Edinburgh Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cox-FolkSongsSouth 112, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
Cox/Hercog/Halpert/Boswell-WVirginia-A, #19, pp. 81-82, "Fair Caroline" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-SongsTheWhalemenSang, pp. 137-141, "Lovely Caroline" (1 text plus portions of another, 1 tune)
Thompson-APioneerSongster 20, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text)
Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales, pp. 383-384, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text)
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 210-212, "Caroline of Edinboro Town" (1 text)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore2 124, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text plus 1 excerpt)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore4 124, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
Chappell-FolkSongsOfRoanokeAndTheAlbermarle 51, "Henry Was a High-Learnt Man" (1 text, in which "Edinborough" becomes "Winton Goldburg"!)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 31, pp. 143-145, "Edinburgh Town" (1 text)
Ord-BothySongsAndBallads, pp. 186-187, "Blooming Caroline o' Edinburgh Town" (1 text)
MacColl/Seeger-TravellersSongsFromEnglandAndScotland 51, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-TheMountCallanGarland-Tom-Lenihan 29, "Edinburgh Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Forget-Me-Not-Songster, pp. 175-177, "Caroline of Edinburg Town" (1 text)
DT 342, CAROEDIN* CAROEDN2*
Roud #398
RECORDINGS:
Charles Ingenthron, "Caroline of Edinboro' Town" (AFS; on LC14)
Tom Lenihan, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (on IRClare01)
Mike Molloy, "Caroline of Edinburgh Town" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3065), "Poor Caroline of Edinburgh Town," J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Harding B 11(3063), Harding B 16(207b), Harding B 11(3064), "Poor Caroline of Edinburgh Town"; Harding B 11(4395), Firth c.12(183), Harding B 11(1208), "Poor Caroline of Edinboro' Town"; Harding B 11(544), "Caroline o' Embro' Town"; Firth b.26(371), "Caroline of Edinboro' Town"; Firth c.26(276)[some lines illegible], Firth c.26(48), "Caroline of Edinbro' Town"; Johnson Ballads 2148a, "Carroline of Edinborough Town"
NLScotland, APS.3.96.25, "Carroline of Edinborough Town," P Brereton (Dublin), c.1865
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Crossing the Plains" (tune)
SAME TUNE:
The New Jersey Third! ("Come all ye true Americans, I pray you lend an ear," by H. E. Loper, Company F) (Wolf-AmericanSongSheets p. 107)
Our Gallant Colonel ("Come all ye jolly lads and members of Company I") (Wolf-AmericanSongSheets p. 120)
File: LP27

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