Broken-Hearted (Lost Rosabel)

DESCRIPTION: "They have given you to another; They have broken every vow; They have given you to another." The singer complains that gold has caused her lover's mother to turn to another man. He wishes he had loved her as a brother; he loves her yet
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1845 (Bodleian broadsides)
KEYWORDS: love mother wife rejection
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Neely/Spargo-TalesAndSongsOfSouthernIllinois, pp. 238-239, "Broken-Hearted" (1 text)
Dime-Song-Book #8, p. 51, "Lost Rosabel" (1 text)
Roud #4332 and 13786
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1264)=Johnson Ballads 830, "Lost Rosabel," J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 11(3405), "Lost Rosabel," A. Ryle and Co. (London), 1845-1859; also Harding B 11(3679), "Lost Rosabel," J. O. Bebbington/J. Beaumong (Manchester and Leeds), 1858-1861; also Firth b.25(600/601)=Firth b.34(275), W. Oroyno (Nottingham), n.d.
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Thou Hast Learned to Love Another" (lyrics)
File: Neel238

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