the North Amerikee,
From down in the lonesome Lowlands low--
There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee,
And she went by the name of the Green Willow Tree,
And she sailed from the Lowlands low.

THE DRIVER BOY (YOUNG EDWIN), 4a3b4c3b, 12; The above adapted to a
recital of Emily's love for the mail-driver boy and of his untimely
murder.

PRETTY PEGGY O, metre as below, 6: A fine lilting lyric of the Captain's
love for his lass; his farewell; and his death. It begins:

As we marched down to Fernario,
As we marched down to Fernario,
Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove,
And they called her by name Pretty Peggy, O.

(Cf. Child, No. 299, Trooper and Maid. Published by Shearin, Sewanee
Review, July, 1911, p. 326.)

LADY GAY, 4a3b4c3b, 9: An English woman sends her three children to
America. They die on board ship, their shades return to the mother at
Christmas and warn her against pride. (Cf. Child, No. 79, The Wife of
Usher's Well, and a close variant from North Carolina in Kittredge's
Edition, p. 170.)

JACKARO, iv, 3abcb, 17ca: The daughter of a London silk merchant loves
Jack, the sailor-boy, against her father's will. Disguised as a man, she
follows him to "the wars of Germany," finds him wounded on the
battle-field, and nurses him back to health; then they are married. (Cf.
Child, 1857 ed., iv, p. 328. The Merchant's Daughter of Bristow, 4abab,
65: Maudlin disguised as a seaman follows her lover to Padua; they are
married, and return to England.)

THE FAN, ii, 4abcb, 12: A sea-captain and a lieutenant woo a lady. To
test their love she throws her fan into a den of lions. The sea-captain
recovers it and wins her. (Published by Shearin, Mod. Lang. Notes, 26.
113; for British originals see Belden, Sewanee Review, April, 1911, p.
218, and Kittredge, Mod. Lang. Notes, 26. 168.)

THE APPRENTICE BOY, iii, 4abcb, 12ca: Like Keats's Isabella, the
daughter of a merchant in a post-town loves her father's apprentice. He
is slain by her brothers and his body hidden in a valley. His ghost
reveals the murderers, who, striving to flee, are lost at sea.
(Identified by Belden with an English version, The Constant Farmer's
Son, in The Sewanee Review, April, 1911, p. 222.)

II.

_The songs in this group are apparently of British origin. Material has
not been at hand to justify an attempt to establish their identity._

THE RICH MARGENT [MERCHANT], 2abcb, 12: Dinah, da