Oh What Has Changed You

DESCRIPTION: In the street, "a girl was weeping bitterly, her lover stood close by." She asks why he is deserting her and their baby. He hits her. She falls and is run over by a carriage. She forgives her lover, prays that heaven will protect her baby, and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA-Leach); (The broadsides from Frank Kidson Manuscript Collection had no imprint; Frank Kidson died in 1926)
KEYWORDS: courting love seduction abandonment death baby rake lover abuse
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #23269
RECORDINGS:
Ned Stamp, "Down the Streets in London" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
BROADSIDES:
Frank Kidson Manuscript Collection, FK/12/82/2, "Oh, What Has Changed You?" ("Out in the streets one night"), unknown, n.d., accessed 11 August 2018 at https://www.vwml.org/archives-catalogue/
Frank Kidson Manuscript Collection, FK/12/27/1, "Oh! What Has Changed You?" ("Out in the streets I heard a very mournful cry"), unknown, n.d., accessed 11 August 2018 at https://www.vwml.org/archives-catalogue/
Frank Kidson Manuscript Collection, FK/13/101/1, "Oh! What Has Changed You?" ("Out in the streets I heard a very mournful cry"), unknown, n.d., accessed 11 August 2018 at https://www.vwml.org/archives-catalogue/
File: ML3OWHCY

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