"A Brisk Young Sailor (Courted Me)", also known as "The Bold Young Farmer", "The Alehouse", "Died For Love" and "I Wish My Baby Was Born" amongst other titles, is a traditional folk ballad, which has been collected from all over Britain, Ireland and North America. The song originated in England in the early 1600s. It is a variant of "The Butcher's Boy" family of ballads. Percy Grainger recorded this one in 1906 from Mrs. Thompson at Barrow-on-Humber. It appears in his Lincolnshire Posy as "The Brisk Young Sailor". It was recorded by Joseph Taylor on a wax cylinder recording made by Percy Grainger in 1908 (as "Died for Love"), Martin Carthy (unaccompanied and with an additional verse) on Prince Heathen (1969) (with Dave Swarbrick), A.L. Lloyd on English Street Songs (1956) (as "Died for Love"), Shirley Collins on False True Lovers (1959) (as "Died for Love"), John Roberts & Tony Barrand on Heartoutbursts (1998) (as "Died for Love"). It was included in the Roud Folk Song Index as #60. It was printed in Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1955), Belden and Hudson, Ed.s, The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, Greig and Duncan's The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, Volume 6 (1995), Karpeles' The Crystal Spring: English Folk Songs Collected by Cecil Sharp (1975), Kidson's Traditional Tunes (1999), Killion and Waller's A Treasury of Georgia Folklore (1972) (as "A Railroad Boy"), Korson's Pennsylvania Songs and Legends (1949), Leather's Folk-Lore of Herefordshire (1912/republished 1970), Palmer's English Country Songbook (1979), Palmer's Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1983), Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965) and Sharp's One Hundred English Folksongs (1916).