| Summary: | The singer left home and met and courted a beautiful, wealthy youn woman. She promised to wait for him while he went to sea, but he met and married another woman in Douglas. The singer admits his guilt. see Leach, MacEdward "Folk Ballads and Songs of the Lower Labrador Coast", Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1965, p. 330 "The Girl I Left Behind"; Creighton, Helen, "Maritime Folk Songs", Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1961, p. 76 "The Girl I Left Behind"; Peacock, Kenneth, "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports", 1965, p. 449 "The Girl I Left Behind".
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