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"Fare Thee Well" (also known as "The Turtle Dove" or "10,000 Miles") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, listed as number 422 in the Roud Folk Song Index.In the song, a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey, and the lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers.
She leaves a suicide note, which prescribes that she be buried with a turtle dove placed upon her breast, to show the world she died for love. This narrative use of the turtle dove is derived from Old World symbolism; it is analogous to the folksong interment motif of a rose, briar, or lily growing out of the neighboring graves of deceased lovers.
It was published along with other poems on the subject, including William Shakespeare's poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle", where "turtle" refers to the turtle dove. The turtle dove is featured in a number of folk songs about love and loss, including "There Is a Tavern in the Town". One of these is a setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams. [23]
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).
Two Turtle Doves. National average cost: $184. ... Total cost for all repetitions of the song: $7,121. The true meaning of the "ten lords a-leaping" in the Twelve Days of Christmas is a mystery ...
The turtle-dove's necklace, an 11th-century Arabic book by Ibn Hazm (also called The Ring of the Dove) " The Turtle Dove ", an 18th-century English folk ballad (also called "Fare Thee Well") Turtledove General Delivery ( Postlagernd Turteltaube ), a 1952 West German comedy film
The cost of the dozen gifts outlined in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song rang in at an all-time high of $46,729.86 this year, ... But the pair of turtle doves saw the biggest jump, at 25% ...
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...