“The Fisherman's Boy”

Description

A poor boy, cast adrift, wanders alone, crying that his mother died and his father was lost at sea. At last a kind woman takes him in and has her father find him work. The boy serves well until he grows up

Cross references

• cf. "The Soldier's Poor Little Boy" [Laws Q28] (plot)
• cf. "The Farmer's Boy" [Laws Q30] (plot)
• cf. "The Fisherman's Girl" (plot)
• cf. "The Poor Smuggler's Boy" (plot)

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 11(1211), "Fisherman's Boy," W. Jackson and Son (Birmingham), 1842-1855

Recordings

• Micho Russell, "Poor Little Fisherboy" (on Voice02)

References

1. Laws Q29, "The Fisherman's Boy"
2. Eddy 67, "The Fisherman's Boy" (1 text)
3. Greenleaf/Mansfield 99, "The Poor Fisherman's Boy" (1 text)
4. DT 537, FISHBOY
5. Roud #912
6. BI, LQ29