“Courting the Widow's Daughter (Hard Times)”
Description
The young swain creeps into his sweetheart's house, but the young couple cannot keep quiet. The girl's mother, a widow, creeps down -- and tries to get the young man for herself! He insults her, and she drives him off with a broom
Cross references
- cf. "Seventeen Come Sunday" [Laws O17] (plot)
- cf. "Aye She Likit The Ae Nicht" (plot)
Recordings
- Charles Ingenthron, "The Widow's Old Broom" (AFS; on LC12)
References
- Laws H25, "Courting the Widow's Daughter (Hard Times)"
- Belden, pp. 248-249, "Courting the Widow's Daughter " (1 text)
- Randolph 387, "The Widow's Old Broom" (2 texts, 1 tune)
- JHCox 183, "Hard Times" (1 text, the first six verses being "Courting the Widow's Daughter" and the last seven being a reduced version, minus the chorus, of "The Rigs of the Times")
- DT 720, WIDAUGH
- Roud #659
- BI, LH25