The Sweet Trinity

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The Sweet Trinity
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"The Sweet Trinity", also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is Child Ballad 286. The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".

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Versions of The Sweet Trinity include:

"The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)," no. 286, in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, ed. by Francis James Child (1882-1898).
- Variant 286A (Sir Walter Rawleigh has built a ship)
- Variant 286B (There was a gallant ship, and a gallant ship was she)
- Variant 286C (I have a ship in the North Countrie)
"Golden Vanity", unsourced (There was a ship that sailed / all on the Lowland Sea)