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The Golden Glove is an English folk song also popular in Scotland, Ireland and North America. It tells the tale of a young woman who falls in love with a farmer and devises a somewhat far-fetched ruse to win his love. This song is also known as Dog and Gun and The Squire of Tamworth
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- 1 2 3 Folk-songs of the South; Cox, J H; Harvard; 1925 pp358-361 https://archive.org/details/folksongsofsouth00coxj Retrieved 2017/04/19
- 1 2 English Broadside Ballad Archive http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/33978/image Retrieved 2017/04/19
- ↑ Vaughan Williams Memorial Library; Full English Collection; https://www.vwml.org/record/PG/5/81 Retrieved 2017/04/20
- ↑ English Broadside Ballad Archive http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/search_combined/?ss=early+in+the+spring Retrieved 2017/04/19
- ↑ A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs, Logan, W. H. and Maidment, J; Edinburgh; 1869; https://archive.org/details/pedlarspackofbal00logarich Retrieved 2017/04/19
- ↑ "Carl T. Sprague – Cowboy Love Song / Following The Cow Trail". Discogs . Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Tobar an Dualchais/Kist of Riches" . Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Max Hunter Collection - Unfaithful Lover". Missouri State University Library . Retrieved April 18, 2017.
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- ↑ "Early, Early in the Spring / One Morning in the Spring / The Single Sailor". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
