“Sarah's Young Man”

Description

The singer falls in love with Sarah, a domestic who "lives in a mansion near Manchester Square." One night he discovers her cozying with a soldier. The master comes home, the soldier and Sarah lose their position, and Sarah loses her suitor.

Notes

Broadsides LOCSinging sb40501a and Bodleian, Harding B 18(432): H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site.

Broadsides LOCSinging sb40501a and Bodleian, Harding B 18(432) are duplicates. - BS

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 18(432), "Sarah's Young Man," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864; also Firth b.34(198), "Sarah's Young Man"
• LOCSinging, sb40501a, "Sarah's Young Man," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864; also as112240, "Sarah's Young Man"

References

1. Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 130-133, "Sarah's Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Roud #1957
3. BI, IvNB130