Early One Morning

DESCRIPTION: "Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard a maid sing in the valley below, Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me; How could you use a poor maiden so?" She laments the young made who made promises and then betrayed her for a new girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1859 (Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime)
KEYWORDS: love courting abandonment
FOUND IN: Britain(Lond,South,West)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 735-736, "Early One Morning" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 185, "Early One Morning" (1 text)
DT, EARLY1AM*
Roud #12682
NOTES [40 words]: Chappell says that, in his experience, that this was one of the three most common songs among serving-women of his era; he is responsible for most of the early field collections (although he does not offer texts or tunes of most of them). - RBW
Last updated in version 6.2
File: FSWB185

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