“The Agricultural Irish Girl”
Description
Mary Ann Malone is a big, strong, agricultural Irish girl. At 17, she is not educated -- "doesn't speak Italian" -- but knows "all befits a lady." "She neither paints nor powders, and her figure is her own" She's aggressive. She will strike for her wages.
Notes
The sheet music version takes place in New York. As O Lochlainn suspects, "probably American" - BS
Broadsides
- LOCSheet, sm1885 05879, "Mary Ann Malone The Agricultural Irish Girl," Chas. D. Blake (Boston), 1885 (tune)
References
- OLochlainn-More 66, "The Agricultural Irish Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
- ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), p. 244, "The Agricultural Irish Girl"
- BI, OLcM066