Minister's Farewell

DESCRIPTION: "Dear friends farewell, how do you tell, Since you and I must part? I am going away and here you stay, But still we are joined in heart. Your love to me has been most free, Your conversation sweet. How can I bear to journey where With you I cannot meet?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1944 (Morris, Southern Folklore Quarterly 8)
KEYWORDS: separation clergy
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #97, "Minister's Farewell" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #5058
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Now Our Meeting Is Over" (lyrics)
NOTES [50 words]: This has so much in common with "Now Our Meeting Is Over" that I have to think they are mutually dependent. But with only two texts (Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida's and one in the John Quincy Wolf Arkansas collection), both very short, telling the exact nature of the connection is almost impossible. - RBW
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File: Morr097

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