Miss Milly

DESCRIPTION: "Young Miss Milly was sweet and fair" but let herself be seduced by an old letcher. When she becomes pregnant, she seeks his help, but he has disappeared. Thrown out by her family, she dies in the snow. Hearers are told to use birth control pills
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Morgan/Green-RugbySongs)
KEYWORDS: sex warning pregnancy death abandonment
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, pp. 179-180, "Young Miss Milly" (1 text)
Roud #10250
NOTES [36 words]: Since the first birth control pill went into testing in 1954, and was not approved for some time after that, this song must have been very new when Morgan/Green-RugbySongs printed it. I doubt it was traditional. - RBW
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