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Pretty Polly (ballad)
"Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy" or "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" (Laws P36, Roud 15) is a traditional English-language folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places.
The song is a murder ballad, telling of a young woman lured into the forest where she is killed and buried in a shallow grave. Many variants of the story have the villain as a ship's carpenter who promises to marry Polly but murders her when she becomes pregnant. When he goes back to sea, he is haunted by her ghost, confesses to the murder, goes mad and dies.
=="The Gosport Tragedy"==
There are a number of extant broadside copies of "The Gosport Tragedy," the earliest known version. It is a lengthy ballad composed of rhymed couplets, sixteen verses of eight lines each. A copy at the Lewis Walpole Library has an estimated date of 1760 to 1765.〔http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId=lwlpr25405〕 In "The Gosport Tragedy: Story of a Ballad," D.C. Fowler argued that the events described in the song may have taken place in 1726.〔D.C. Fowler, "The Gosport Tragedy: Story of a Ballad", ''Southern Folklore Quarterly'' 43 (1979), 157-96.〕 The ship, identified as the ''Bedford'' often "lay at Portsmouth" as in the song. Fowler found evidence that a ship's carpenter on the ''Bedford'' by the name of John Billson died at sea on September 25, 1726, and that there was a Charles Stewart among the crew members at the time, as noted in some versions. The tragic protagonist, "Molly," does not seem to have been buried at the Parish Church of St. Mary's Alverstoke, the presumed "Gosford Church," as claimed in the song. Although hardly conclusive, a number of subsequent commentators have regarded Fowler's scenario as plausible.〔http://www.planetslade.com/pretty-polly.html〕
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