“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

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

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: before 1856 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(1211))
Keywords: orphan family servant
Found in: US(MW,So) Canada(Newf) Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland