Mary Wood

DESCRIPTION: "Listen to my story that to you I'll now relate. Of how a Philadelphia maiden met her melancholy fate." Mary Wood loves a poor man; her father, who wants her to marry wealth, stabs her -- then repents. She forgives him, sends love to her beloved, and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: love courting father homicide money
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 205-206, "Mary Wood" (1 text)
Roud #11711
File: Shoe205

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