“Oh! No, No”
Description
"Come here, dearest Peggy, you're my whole heart's delight... So fain I wad bide, love, but away I must go." He says he would guard her if they were together. She goes into frenzies of grief; he stops her, saying he will not leave
Notes
This guy is enough of a jerk to make John Riley look good.
Roud lumps this item with "Busk, Busk, Bonnie Lassie," and there are lyrics in common. But this has no chorus, and does have a happy ending -- if you believe that it's a happy ending when a man taunts a girl needlessly and then declares it a joke. There is kinship, but it doesn't look like the same song to me. - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "Busk, Busk, Bonnie Lassie" (lyrics)
- cf. "The Manchester Angel" (lyrics)
References
- Ord, p. 136-137, "Oh! No, No" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Roud #832
- BI, Ord136