Sailor Taking Leave of his Mistress

DESCRIPTION: Jamie is leaving Molly to go privateering on the Spanish Shore. He tells her not to worry about the dangers, or that he will find another girl on the Spanish Shore, and that they will marry when he returns. He returns, rich, and they marry
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (Logan-APedlarsPack); in tradition, 1951 (MUNFLA-Leach)
KEYWORDS: love marriage promise farewell home parting return reunion separation travel sea ship lover mistress sailor
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Logan-APedlarsPack, pp. 64-66, "Sailor Taking Leave of his Mistress" (1 text)
Roud #26988
RECORDINGS:
Jack Myrick, "Polly Moore" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
NOTES [103 words]: Logan-APedlarsPack, ignoring the words of the song, thinks this is about war rather than privateering. He writes, "The probability is... that it is referable either to the hostilities commenced by France and Spain against England in 1798, on an alleged violation of the Treaty of Peace of 1763, with regard to the Spanish colonies in South America and to the French subjects in the island of Grenada; or to the war which was declared between Spain and England in 1800, which culminated in the glorious victory of the British fleet at Trafalgar, on 21st October 1805, over the combined fleets of France and Spain." - BS
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