Lancashire Lads, The

DESCRIPTION: "It was last Monday morning... Our orders came from Manchester, we were to march away." A girl wants to marry one of the Lancashire lads. The mother wonders why, and threatens to confine her daughter. The girl says she will follow her lad once she is free
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1980 (Harding-FolkSongsOfLancashire), but the broadsides seem to be from the first half of the nineteenth century
KEYWORDS: courting parting army clothes mother soldier
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Harding-FolkSongsOfLancashire, p. 44, "The Lancashire Lads" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #588
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 28(239), "Lancashire Lads," J. Crome (Sheffield), c. 1817; also Harding B 17(159b), "The Lancashire Lads," T. Bloomer (Birmingham), n.d.; also Harding B 28(130), "The Lancashire Lad," unknown, n.d.
NOTES [57 words]: Roud lumps "The Rifle Boys" and "The Lancashire Lads." There isn't much doubt but that they derive from the same original; they have several half-stanzas in common, and the plot is the same. But they also have substantial difference. I was undecided between splitting and lumping, and when in doubt, I split. But you should see both entries. - RBW
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