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Classification Title	Sailor Boy, Lyric Variant 02
Alternative Titles	Sweet Sailor Boy; Bring Me Back the One I Love; Oh, Father, Go Build Me a Boat; Captain, Captain, Tell Me True; Oh, Captain, Captain, Tell Me True; Captain, Oh Captain, Tell Me True; Sweet Willie; Oh, Father, Father, Go Build Me a Boat; There is a Town Where I Did Dwell; Susie's Search for Her Lover; The Prentice Boy; The Sailor's Sweetheart; Moment's River Side; Down by the River Side; The Lost Lover; The Pinery Boy; Sweet William; Soldier Boy
Subject	Ballads, English Love -- Songs and music Sailors -- Songs and music Death -- Songs and music Lovesickness -- Songs and music
Scholarly Classification	Brown, Older Ballads - Mostly British - 104 Randolph, 68 Cox, 110
Description	Three leaves of lined paper, handwritten in pencil on the front sides. The first leaf of the document is missing. The document is in good physical condition. The document was laminated. There are staple holes at the upper left corner of each leaf. There are stains of unknown origin throughout the document. The document was horizontally folded into thirds, possibly for mailing. There are several fold-related minor tears throughout the document. The upper left corner of the second [first] leaf and the upper left corner of the fourth [third] leaf were folded into the laminate.
Dimensions, Original	126 mm x 200 mm
Publisher	W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Contributors	I. G. Greer
Upload Date	2007-05-15
Type	Manuscript
Format	JPEG
Language	English
Rights	The images and audio files contained in the "So Mote It Ever Be: The Folksong Heritage of North Carolina's Northern Blue Ridge Mountains" collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. I. G. Greer/W. Amos Abrams Manuscript Files Series, Folksong Files Subseries, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.
Scan Date	2006-09-11
Scan By	Paul L. Robertson
Transcribe Date	2006-09-11
Transcribe By	Paul L. Robertson

Classification Title	The Sweet Sailor Boy, Lyric Variant 02, Page 02
File Name	sailor_boy_the_02_p2.tif
Transcript	=2= fair if he’d only return would give me joy for I never loved any but my Sweet Sailor Boy4 Oh captain captain tell me true did my Sweet Willie sail with you Answer me quick for it will give me joy. I never loved any but my Sweet Sailor Boy 5 Oh she looked down the shore and looked in vain saw two ships return from Spain she halted each captain as they passed by and there she inquired

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