Darling Black Head

DESCRIPTION: "The women of this village are in madness and trouble, Pulling their hair and letting it go with the wind," unless they go to fight (for or against) the king. The singers asks "Black Head, darling, move over to me."
AUTHOR: Translated by Douglas Hyde
EARLIEST DATE: 1893 (Hyde, Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht)
KEYWORDS: love hair soldier
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 286-287, "Darling Black Head" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Douglas Hyde, _Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht, or, Love songs of Connacht_, T. F. Unwin, 1893 (available on Google Books), p. 63, "Darling Black Head" (1 text, apparently with an Irish original)
Roud #15018
NOTES [14 words]: For background on the work of Douglas Hyde, see the notes to "My Own Dark Maiden." - RBW
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