Add to ORKGMan marries, finds wife is a scold. Gets olive twig and beats her. Devil carries her away. Congratulates himself on a return to bachelorhood.Laws, ABBB, Q6; Sharp, E.F.S.S.A., i, 341-343. Peacock, 322-323; Leach, 294-295. Leach and Peacock have related themes but different songs
Man asks maiden to marry him. She says no because she is much poorer than he. He maintains he will...
Husband buys medicine for sick wife and she gets fat and strong.Mecer: Greenleaf, p. 316; Halliday, ...
A man is glad his hasty marriage is over.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1670/thumbnail.jp
Song is about what one learns about his partner after the wedding. He drinks. She sleeps around and ...
In the course of a week, a man brings his new wife home, she begins to scold, he beats her with a st...
Man meets girl on Monday; marries on Tuesday; fights on Wednesday; leaves on Thursday; wife commits ...
Comic song. Man's wife is the plague of his life and he dances with joy at her funeral. He marries a...
A week after a young girl is married, she sees her husband with another woman. When he comes home sh...
A man meets a beautiful maid who tells him that she's waiting for her love to return. He tells her ...
voiceCollected by Mary Shand Transcribed by M. C. Parler Ollie Gilbert Mountain View, Ark. Oct. 26, ...
Humourous drinking song. Man comes home drunk every Saturday night and upsets his wife. He takes a p...
Sailor returns to find his true love married to a house carpenter. By promises of money and luxury h...
Young man meets a girl in a meadow and proposes marriage, but she refuses, saying that she is faithf...
A girl gets married and has a confrontation with her jilted boyfriend.Laws, ABBB, P31; Mercer: Green...
Girl forsakes her lover to marry a richer man. When she hears her lover sing at the wedding, she fee...
Man asks maiden to marry him. She says no because she is much poorer than he. He maintains he will...
Husband buys medicine for sick wife and she gets fat and strong.Mecer: Greenleaf, p. 316; Halliday, ...
A man is glad his hasty marriage is over.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1670/thumbnail.jp
Song is about what one learns about his partner after the wedding. He drinks. She sleeps around and ...
In the course of a week, a man brings his new wife home, she begins to scold, he beats her with a st...
Man meets girl on Monday; marries on Tuesday; fights on Wednesday; leaves on Thursday; wife commits ...
Comic song. Man's wife is the plague of his life and he dances with joy at her funeral. He marries a...
A week after a young girl is married, she sees her husband with another woman. When he comes home sh...
A man meets a beautiful maid who tells him that she's waiting for her love to return. He tells her ...
voiceCollected by Mary Shand Transcribed by M. C. Parler Ollie Gilbert Mountain View, Ark. Oct. 26, ...
Humourous drinking song. Man comes home drunk every Saturday night and upsets his wife. He takes a p...
Sailor returns to find his true love married to a house carpenter. By promises of money and luxury h...
Young man meets a girl in a meadow and proposes marriage, but she refuses, saying that she is faithf...
A girl gets married and has a confrontation with her jilted boyfriend.Laws, ABBB, P31; Mercer: Green...
Girl forsakes her lover to marry a richer man. When she hears her lover sing at the wedding, she fee...
Man asks maiden to marry him. She says no because she is much poorer than he. He maintains he will...
Husband buys medicine for sick wife and she gets fat and strong.Mecer: Greenleaf, p. 316; Halliday, ...
A man is glad his hasty marriage is over.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1670/thumbnail.jp