She's a Lassie from Lancashire

DESCRIPTION: "From a dear little Lancashire town a boy had sailed away Across the briny spray, to toil in USA." Girls seek him out, but he says there is just one girl for him: "She's a Lassie from Lancashire." He works until he has enough money to sail home to her
AUTHOR: Dan Lipton (1873-1935), C. W. Murphy (1875-1913), John Neat (1876-1949) (source: Second Hand Songs site; Folk Song and Music Hall site)
EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (recording, Florrie Ford)
KEYWORDS: love separation work return
FOUND IN:
Roud #24008
RECORDINGS:
Florrie Ford, "She's a Lassie from Lancashire" (Zonophone X-43147, 1906)
Bob Graves, "She's a Lassie from Lancashire" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #41, recorded 07/21/2021)
Ella Retford, "She's a Lassie from Lancashire" (Ariel Grand Record 1820, 1912)
File: RcSALFL

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