Unfortunate Tailor, The

DESCRIPTION: "Oh list, oh list to my sorrowful lay... I'm an unfortunate tailor." His Sarah smiles at a another man (a sailor?), so he gives up his thimble and needle and goes to sea. "My heart's locked up and she's the key, What a very unfeeling gaoler"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1868 (Bodleian broadside Firth c.12(384))
KEYWORDS: love betrayal sailor | tailor
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "UNFORTUNATE TAILOR, THE"
Purslow-MarrowBones, p. 95, "The Unfortunate Tailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #30, p. 59, "The Unfortunate Tailor" (1 text)
Roud #1614
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.12(384), "I'll Go and Enlist for a Sailor," The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1868
File: PuMB095

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