Add to ORKGDitty - don't marry a good-looking man or you'll have to mess him up.Mercer: Leach, 1965: 96; Peacock (My Good Looking Man) p. 302
The narrator, at sixteen, fell in love with a handsome young man. On their honeymoon, he walked out ...
When her parents discover her love for Johnny Doyle, the heroine is locked in her bedroom. When she ...
A ditty about a sixteen year old girl receiving a ring from a suitor and looking forward to her wedd...
Young man courts and marries a fair maidLaws, ABBB, O3; Mercer: Peacock, 518-519
Man repents marriage to a girl who is inept housewife. Recites list of domestic disasters. She is un...
The singer is supposed to be a young girl. She once longed to be married to a good looking man. Her ...
Man asks maiden to marry him. She says no because she is much poorer than he. He maintains he will...
A week after a young girl is married, she sees her husband with another woman. When he comes home sh...
voiceCollected by Merlin Mitchell Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Tom Boyd Patrick, Ark November 2233,...
A man meets a beautiful maid who tells him that she's waiting for her love to return. He tells her ...
Forty-five year old unmarried woman asks any man to marry her for pity. Finally a chimney sweep marr...
Lover returns disguised, tests lover, and they are wed.Mercer: Peacock, 1965: 547
voiceCollected by Garnett Peters For Mary C. Parler John Pennington Fayetteville, Ark. Aug. 12, 1958...
Boy goes log driving at age sixteen. He falls in love with a girl on a visit home. He imagines build...
Man requests woman on Beach of Straw-blaine to marry him. She turns him down saying a rover like hi...
The narrator, at sixteen, fell in love with a handsome young man. On their honeymoon, he walked out ...
When her parents discover her love for Johnny Doyle, the heroine is locked in her bedroom. When she ...
A ditty about a sixteen year old girl receiving a ring from a suitor and looking forward to her wedd...
Young man courts and marries a fair maidLaws, ABBB, O3; Mercer: Peacock, 518-519
Man repents marriage to a girl who is inept housewife. Recites list of domestic disasters. She is un...
The singer is supposed to be a young girl. She once longed to be married to a good looking man. Her ...
Man asks maiden to marry him. She says no because she is much poorer than he. He maintains he will...
A week after a young girl is married, she sees her husband with another woman. When he comes home sh...
voiceCollected by Merlin Mitchell Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Tom Boyd Patrick, Ark November 2233,...
A man meets a beautiful maid who tells him that she's waiting for her love to return. He tells her ...
Forty-five year old unmarried woman asks any man to marry her for pity. Finally a chimney sweep marr...
Lover returns disguised, tests lover, and they are wed.Mercer: Peacock, 1965: 547
voiceCollected by Garnett Peters For Mary C. Parler John Pennington Fayetteville, Ark. Aug. 12, 1958...
Boy goes log driving at age sixteen. He falls in love with a girl on a visit home. He imagines build...
Man requests woman on Beach of Straw-blaine to marry him. She turns him down saying a rover like hi...
The narrator, at sixteen, fell in love with a handsome young man. On their honeymoon, he walked out ...
When her parents discover her love for Johnny Doyle, the heroine is locked in her bedroom. When she ...
A ditty about a sixteen year old girl receiving a ring from a suitor and looking forward to her wedd...