Roaming in the Gloaming

DESCRIPTION: Singer recalls his "island cottage" far away where his "bonny Irish rose/Scotch bluebell" lived. Her parents were kind. "Almost every evening" the couple sat by the fire and sang about how they went roaming in the gloaming together.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA/Leach)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad father mother
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #30186
RECORDINGS:
Raymond Noseworthy, "Roaming in the Gloaming" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
NOTES [14 words]: This is not to be confused with "Roamin' in the Gloamin'" recorded by Harry Lauder. - BS
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