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BLACK-EYED SAN (GAY)
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SWEET WILLIAM'S FAREWELL TO BLACK-EYED SAN, BY JOHN GAY
Note: Before the Black-Eyed San received s popular mon name, there was a song by John Gay lled Black-Eyed San. There is an Old English poem by John Gay that rells the tale of a woman who searched a fleet of moored ships soon to leave for battle, tryg to fd her lover William who would be makg the long sea voyage.
He heard her ll om high above his ship’s yardarm and scrambled down to nsole and bid his San one last is the legend of Black-eyed William’s Farewell to Black-Eyed SanBy John Gay (1685–1732) A BalladAll the Downs the fleet was moor'd, The streamers wavg the wd, When black-ey'd San me on board:Oh!