Round Cape Horn

DESCRIPTION: "I asked a maiden by my side, Who sighed and looked at me forlorn, 'Where is your heart?' She quick replied, ''Round Cape Horn.'" The singer warns boys to behave or he'll tell their fathers; they say he must go around the horn. One was born there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales)
KEYWORDS: travel separation sailor father
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales, p. 195, "Round Cape Horn" (1 short text)
Roud #6606
File: TNY195

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