Sweet Soldier Boy- P. Fitzgerald (VA) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from: Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/4236).
R. Matteson 2017]
Sweet Soldier Boy- sung by Philander Fitzgerald, Nash, Virginia on 9 May, 1918, collected by C. Sharp.
There was a fair lady from India she came,
She left her parents house and home,
Went on board a ship of war,
And there made enquiries for her sweet sailor boy.