She's a Black and Rolling Eye (Railway Version)

DESCRIPTION: "Kind friends, just listen for a while, a few words to you I'll say." The singer meets a pretty girl with a baby on the train, with "A black and rolling eye... A nice little young thing And just the one to woo." She gets off the train, leaving the baby
AUTHOR: George Ware (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1863 (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
KEYWORDS: train courting baby abandonment trick
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Paddle-Your-Own-Canoe-Songster, pp. 28-30, "Fooled in a Railway Car" (1 text)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "She’d a black and rolling eye (railway version)"
Roud #3561
NOTES [49 words]: This is patently a rewrite of "The Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train" or one of its close relatives. It seems almost everyone else realized that, too, because "Charming Young Widow" was far more popular.
One does wonder about a man stupid enough to start courting a girl with a baby. - RBW
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