Peggy, I Must Love Thee

DESCRIPTION: "As from a rock past all relief The shipwrecked Colin spying His native soil, o'ercome with grief, Half sunk in waves, and dying" when he suddenly sees a ship to bring him hope -- so it is when the singer sees Peggy: Peggy, I must love thee!"
AUTHOR: Words: Allan Ramsay
EARLIEST DATE: 1803 (Scots Musical Museum); apparently first published in the Tea-Table Miscellany
KEYWORDS: love ship wreck derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Simpson-TheBritishBroadsideBallad, pp. 573-574, "Peggy, I Must Love Thee" (1 tune)
Roud #8470
NOTES [63 words]: The description is of Allan Ramsay's words to an older melody. It's not one of his better works, and it doesn't seem to have gone into tradition, but the tune (based on Simpson-TheBritishBroadsideBallad) is traditional for a different set of words. But Steve Roud sseems to have assigned #8470 to the Ramsay text. So I've indexed it. But it's more for the tune than the text. - RBW
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