Frozen Limb, The

DESCRIPTION: "One cold frosty morning As her father lay sleeping I tapped at the window Where Mary did lay." He begs her to let him in; "My limbs are all frozen." She says she finds him quite warm. He must leave, but she hopes he will return so she can thaw him again
AUTHOR: George Howland and Frederick H. Russell (source: Miller)
EARLIEST DATE: before 1880 (voyage of the _Pioneer_, on which Howland and Russell served)
KEYWORDS: love courting | cold freezing warmth thaw
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Pamela A. Miller, _And the Whale Is Ours: Creative Writing of American Whalemen_, David R. Godine/Kendall Whaling Museum, 1979, pp. 77-79, "Frozen Limb" (1 text)
Roud #31324
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Mowing the Barley (Cold and Raw)" (plot elements)
File: WhCre077

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography