“The River through the Pines”

Description

"O Mary was a maiden when the birds began to sing, She was sweeter than the blooming rose so early in the spring...." She loves (Charlie), a shanty boy; the two are married. But he dies at his work; they are buried together

Supplemental text

River through the Pines, The
  Partial text(s)

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The River in the Pines

From Franz Rickaby, Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy
(1926), #30, pp. 119-121. From Mr. William Bartlett of
Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Oh, Mary was a maiden when the birds began to sing.
She was fairer than the blooming rose so early in the spring.
Her thoughts were gar and happy in the morning gay and fine,
For her lover was a river boy from the River in the Pines.

(7 additional stanzas, one of them being six rather than four
lines long)

Notes

As "The River in the Pines," this song is item dC33 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW

References

1. Rickaby 30, "The River in the Pines" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Lomax-FSNA 56, "The River in the Pines" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Fowke-Lumbering #37, "The River through the Pine" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
4. ST LoF056 (Partial)
5. Roud #669
6. BI, LoF056