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Sailor's lamentation for his sweetheart
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| English ballads > Soldiers & sailors > Sailor's lamentation for his sweetheart |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74892649 |
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| Description | Two ballads. The sailor's lamentation for his sweetheart - first line reads: Fast, fast the fading gloom of light. The painful plough - first line reads: Come all you jolly ploughmen of stout and bold. |
| Shelfmark | Crawford.EB.1982 |
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| Description | Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust. |
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