“The Girl I Left Behind Me (III)”

Description

The singer is bound for Baltimore but still thinks about "the girl I left behind me. My friends they sent me off for fear I'd wed a steam-loom weaver ... Sweet Helen, dear, tho' far from thee,Our hearts will ne'er be parted." He returns to Glasgow.

Notes

Broadside NLScotland L.C.1270(015) lacks the happy ending. - BS

Cross references

  • cf. "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (tune, per broadside Bodleian Harding B 26(215))

Recordings

  • Bodleian, Harding 2806 c.15(254), "Girl I Left Behind Me" ("Now for America I'm bound")," unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 26(215), "Girl I Left Behind Me"
  • Murray, Mu23-y1:050, "The Girl I Left Behind Me" ("Now for America I'm bound"), James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
  • NLScotland, L.C.1270(015), "The Girl I Left Behind Me" ("Now for America I'm bound"), unknown, c.1880

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 19C (broadside, Murray Mu23-y1:050)