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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.
In the song, a butcher's apprentice abandons his lover, or is unfaithful toward her. The lover hangs herself and is discovered by her father. 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.
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
Turtle doves: Colly birds Gold rings Geese a-laying Swans a-swimming [forgotten by the singer] Lambs a-bleating: Ladies dancing: Lords a-leading: Bells a-ringing: Henderson, 1879 [21] My true love sent to me Partridge upon a pear tree Turtle doves French hens Curley birds Gold rings Geese laying: Swans swimming: Maids milking: Drummers drumming ...
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 ...
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] Turtle doves are also featured in the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas", as the gift "my true love gave to me" on the second and subsequent days of Christmas. [24]
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