Rose Bud Blooms But Once, The

DESCRIPTION: "I was a little girl with long curly hair" when her mother warned that "the little rose bud a-blooming there It will soon fade away." A miller's boy gets her pregnant and leaves. When her daughter grows up, she will warn her that beauty blooms just once
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2001 (HCargillFamily)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty bastard abandonment children warning
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
RECORDINGS:
Sara Brown and Margaret Tyler, "The Rose Bud Blooms But Once" (on HCargillFamily)
File: RcRBBBO

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