On Gravelly Bay

DESCRIPTION: "I was a handsome nice young man... And all day long I'd sport and play... Till I was sent to Gravelly Bay To work upon a dredge." He meets a girl. Her mother dislikes him. He concludes that the girl flirts to get gifts from many men
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1952 (collected from E. J. Buzzard by Walton)
KEYWORDS: sailor love courting rejection gift mother
FOUND IN: Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Walton/Grimm-Windjammers-SongsOfTheGreatLakesSailors, pp 109-110, "On Gravelly Bay" (1 text)
Roud #19845
File: WGM109

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