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  • Roud No
    4411 [Click on the Roud number to search for variants of this song]
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    Subject terms
    St John's (Newfoundland) / Oceans & seas / <Canada> / Sweethearts / Parents / Ships / Letters / Promises / Leaving / Unhappiness
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    Synopsis
    A man must leave Newfoundland to find employment in Canada, and has a tearful parting with his sweetheart before boarding a ship in St, John's. The woman tries to persuade him to stay, and to think of his aging parents. That failing, she asks that he not forget her and remember his promise to marry her. He promises to return to her. They kiss and he promises to write every day. [MET]
    Source
    Greenleaf, E. B. and Mansfield, G. Y., eds. (1933). Ballads and sea songs of Newfoundland. Reprint 1968. Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates. pp. 314-315.
    Characters
    Male (Adult) x 1 / Female (Adult) x 1
    Song voice
    Unspecified
    Song history
    See Guigné (2016, pp. 188-190).
    Notes

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    Bib. ref(s)
    Guigné, A. K. (2016). The forgotten songs of the Newfoundland outports: as taken from Kenneth Peacock's Newfoundland field collection 1951-1961. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
    Indexer
    MET
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    http://www.gestsongs.com/21/bound.htm