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Description: | Song about the courtship of a sailor and a Tyneside girl.Probably written towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, this song tells of two lovers re-united on the banks of the Tyne. Sailors would often have remained at sea for a number of years without contact with families or sweet-hearts. In this song the girl has waited for the sailor to return and they are subsequently married.This song is part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | Hoggett Durham ; Tyne and Wear | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | marriage and courtship sailors & courtship & love Love | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0109201 | Go to resource |
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