One Fine Summer's Evening

DESCRIPTION: "One fine summer's evening as I walked along," the singer hears a girl singing. Her true loer meets and embraces her. They walk to a shady green. One of them promises be true; only when the sun darkens, the stars fall, the earth moves will (s)he be untrue
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Nestler)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation promise
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Harold Nestler, "Songs from the Hudson Valley" (article in _New York Folklore Quarterly_, Volume V, #2, Summer 1949), p. 92, "One Fine Summer's Evening" (1 short text)
ST Nes092 (Partial)
NOTES [85 words]: This has only four verses, and the only plot elements are the singer seeing the couple meet and they promising to be true. It is almost certainly a very defective version of something else, but most of the words are either commonplaces (e.g. the first line) or not like anything I can identify. Of all the countless songs of this type, the lyrics remind me most of "Tripping Over the Lea" [Laws P19] -- but that song is very rare in America. So I'm leaving this alone until and unless someone can identify it. - RBW
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File: Nes092

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