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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 2 : Miscellaneous Notes, Lectures, Words, Music and Correspondence
Packet 2 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts
Folder 48 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts - E

Page 04899 : False Lover Won Back [song text] Mrs Alexander Rogers (contributor), Woodtown Cottage, Birkenhills, Turriff, Scotland

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

False Lover Won Back

Contributor	Mrs Alexander Rogers
Index Name	Rogers, Mrs Alexander

Place

Woodtown Cottage, Birkenhills, Turriff, Scotland

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 04899

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

Alternative title

False Lover

First line

He took the ring fae off his finger

2 stanzas

Type Number

Child 218, The False Lover Won Back

Contextual Notes

From grandmother, about forty years ago. Grandmother, Mrs Jaffrey, 84 when she died in 1906. Never saw in print. Miss Elizabeth Craig heard from the same source. South Essie, St Fergus 'Craig's Cooper'[?].

'Mrs John Jaffray, Coopers Croft, Lonmay, near St Combs,' crossed out.