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Thread #24577 Message #282028
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
21-Aug-00 - 08:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: the handsome cabin boy, any ideas?
Subject: RE: the handsome cabin boy, any ideas?

"The Bold Soldier", Laws M27, in DT file DOUGTRD2, and DOUGTRD4 is "The Bold Dragoon" (one of 2) on the Bodley Ballads website. He was a keeper in Abraham Miles' "The Masterpiece of Love Songs" (ZN1516 in the broadside ballad index on my website) then a sailor in "The Seamans Renown" (ZN2487). Occupations are not fixed quantities. [An earlier version of the story is in my broadside ballad index at ZN3202]