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Thread #80849 Message #1476735
Posted By: nutty
02-May-05 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Fair Phoebe and her Dark-Eyed Sailor
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: FAIR PHOEBE AND HER DARK-EYED SAILOR
This broadside of the song in the Bodleian Library is dated much earlier than 1830
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Printer: [s.n.] ([s.l.])
Date: between 1767 and 1808
Printer's Series: (39).
Copies: Johnson Ballads 2483
Ballads: 1.Fair Phoebe and her dark-ey'd sailor ("'Tis of a comely young lady fair ...")
To the tune of: Female smuggler
Subject: Lovers reunited
2.Nothing at all; or Derry-down dale ("In Derry-down dale when I wanted a mate ...")