Young Susan Had Lovers

DESCRIPTION: "Young Susan had lovers, so many had she..." that she finds it hard to deal with them all. She spends time with each, and cannot choose between them. So all decide to seek someone else, leaving her alone; she dies of grief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1845 (various J. Pitts broadsides)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection abandonment death
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Purslow-MarrowBones, p. 91, "Too Many Lovers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1611
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads fol. 146, "Young Susan Had Lovers,: J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 11(2106) (ibid.)
File: PuMB091

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