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I Wonder When I Shall Be Married
— "I wonder when I shall be married... For my beauty's beginning to (fail/fade)."…
Jocky Said to Jeanie
— "Jocky said to Jeanie, wilt thou do't? Ne'er a fit, quo' Jeannie, for my tocher…
Let Mr. McGuire Sit Down
— When Mick McGuire calls to court Kitty Donahue, her mother makes sure that he, …
O Gin That I Were Mairrit
— "I'm now a lass of thirty-three, As clever a hizzie as ye'll see, And feint a a…
O Gin That I Were Mairrit
— "I'm now a lass of thirty-three, As clever a hizzie as ye'll see, And feint a a…
One Misty, Moisty Morning
— Daniel courts Dolly, a milk maid. Before she will marry he must have her father…
Peggy in the Morning
— "Noo, mither, confess, a' the lasses ye saw... And wasna my Peggy the flooer o'…
Snake in the Grass
— A young man vigorously courts the singer, then asks how much money her father h…
Two Rigs of Rye
— (The girl tells her lover that her family opposes her marriage.) Uncertain of h…