The Butcher Boy — The butcher boy has "courted [the girl's] life away," but now has left her (for… Camden Town — Singer meets a pretty girl, asks her to sit by him (and proposes marriage; they… The Can of Spring Water — Singer meets a lass on her way to a well. He asks her parents' name. She reject… Careless Love — A young girl's lament for having loved unwisely, worrying what her mother will … Casadh an tSugain (The Twisting of the Rope) — Gaelic. Singer is drunk. He complains that he had come to this place "full of l… Charlie Is My Darling — Charlie comes to town; he spies a lass. He runs up the stairs; she opens the do… Colonel Sharp — A girl tells her lover that she was seduced by Colonel Sharp. Both are humiliat… Creeping and Crawling — The young man, creeping and crawling, seduces the maid, taking a knife to cut t… The Dainty Doonby — "A lassie was milkin' her faither's kye When a gentleman on horseback he cam' r… Dans les prisons de Nantes (Within the Prisons of Nantes) — French. A man is prisoner in Nantes. The jailer's daughter cries because he is …