Jemima Brown

DESCRIPTION: "'Twas at a railway station, Upon the Brighton/Harlem line, I first met my Jemima." "I used to take her everywhere... And then she left me in despair, Did naughty Jemima Brown." He tried to court her. He sees her with another man, whom she later marries
AUTHOR: Harry Clifton (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1863 (FolkSongAndMusicHall)
KEYWORDS: love courting abandonment children
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
WhosBeenHereSinceIveBeenGoneSongster, pp. 31-32, "Jemima Brown" (1 text)
Thats-The-Style-For-Me-Songster, p. 25, "Jemima Brown" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1103, p. 75, "Jemima Brown" (1 reference)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Jemima Brown"
Roud #1776
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Naughty Jemima Brown
NOTES [65 words]: In addition to printing "Jemima Brown," WhosBeenHereSinceIveBeenGoneSongster has two other peices, "I Am The Jemima Brown (Answer to Jemima Brown)" on p. 33, in which she calls him a liar and denies his claim that she was a seamstress, and "Tit For Tat (Answer to Jemima Brown)" on p. 34 in which another main claims she jilted him. For a woman who never existed, she certainly got around! - RBW
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File: WBHS031

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