Mills and Farrell at The Bridge Folk Club - The Broken Ring (Trad)

Mills and Farrell at The Bridge Folk Club, 21 October 2024
The Broken Ring (Trad)
Broken token songs are a regular feature of the folk archive. This is one of the common stories: a young woman meets her beloved sailor who has been away for years (usually seven years) but he is in disguise so she doesn’t recognise him straight away. He tries to trick her into cheating on him before he reveals who he truly is by showing her the ring they had broken between them
This song by Mills and Farrell is a compilation from several versions that were collected in Nova Scotia by Helen Creighton and Roy McKenzie in the early 1940s
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