“The Can of Spring Water”
Description
Singer meets a lass on her way to a well. He asks her parents' name. She rejects his advance but he seduces her. Subsequently she marries someone else but has a baby to go with her to the well.
Notes
Broadside Bodleian Harding B 19(64) is the basis for the description. - BS
Cross references
- cf. "The Well of Spring Water" (form)
Broadsides
- Bodleian, Harding B 19(64), "The Can of Spring Water" ("One evening in May as I carelessly strayed"), J.F. Nugent & Co. (Dublin), 1850-1899; also 2806 c.15(35)[barely legible], "The Can of Spring Water"
References
- Roud #5215
- BI, BdCaSpWa