Any Ornaments for your Fire-Stoves?

DESCRIPTION: Recitation with musical interludes. "My hopes, alas! have blighted been, Most cruelly I've slighted been" by a 19-year-old street-crier, whose call was "Any ornaments for your fire-stoves?" Her cruel husband drives her to suicide; the singer is forlorn
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1868 (Vivians-WhoStoleTheDonkeySongster)
KEYWORDS: love courting husband suicide poison river recitation
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Vivians-WhoStoleTheDonkeySongster, pp. 49-52, "Any Ornaments for Your Fire Stoves?" (1 text)
Roud #V34119
NOTES [60 words]: I know of no absolutely-certain traditional collections of this song. However, a 1919 article in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society had a street cry with this name. So I am, very tentatively, indexing the song because there might be some sort of relationship -- though obviously one has to suspect the street cry came first and the song is based on it. - RBW
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File: VWSD049

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