Sewing Machine (II), The

DESCRIPTION: "I am one of those unlucky chaps, who once did fall in love" with a beautiful dark-haired girl "that worked at a sewing machine." He takes her to the Museum. She asks him to guard her pocket book. He is arrested for having stolen goods
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1865 (Tony Pastor's Carte de Visite Album Songster)
KEYWORDS: crime courting robbery hair technology punishment prison
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: (Tony Pastor), _Tony Pastor's Carte de Visite Album Songster_, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1865 (available in the Robert Winslow Gordon collection at the Library of Congress), pp. 20-22, "The Sewing Machine" (1 text)
Roud #37997
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Black Velvet Band (I)" (theme of a woman causing a man to take the blame for her theft)
cf. "Charcoal Man" (tune, according to Tony Pastor's Carte de Visite Album Songster)
NOTES [31 words]: Yes, this is exactly the plot of "The Black Velvet Band (I)." Even the girl's hair color is the same. The good news is, this guy merely ended up in prison rather than being transported. - RBW
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