Rabbi's Daughter

DESCRIPTION: "You are a Rabbi's daughter, And as such you must obey Your father without question...." "If a Christian you should marry, Your father's heart would break... You must leave him for my sake."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales); collected by Rickaby before 1925
KEYWORDS: clergy Jew love
FOUND IN: US(MA,SW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, p. 51, "The Rabbi's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune, but collected in California from a Michigan informant)
Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales, pp. 391-392, "The Rabbi's Daughter" (1 text)
Roud #6605
File: Pet051

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