Done Over Tailor, The

DESCRIPTION: "A tailor I once was, as blithe as e'er need be, Until love, alas! sure a phantom has made me." He saw Sue and burnt a sleeve. She rejects him for a Dover sailor. "I ne'er will cabbage, or be Will the rover, God grant I was dead, for I'm surely done over"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1867 (TimFinigansWakeSongster)
KEYWORDS: love rejection clothes work
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
TimFinigansWakeSongster, p. 62, "The Done Over Tailor" (1 text)
Roud #23094
File: TFWS062

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