“Larry Magee's Wedding”
Description
Larry "dwelt in a fashionable part of the city An illigant fine mansion." The dancers, drinkers and eaters "at the grand wedding" are named. All the old songs are sung. The wedding ends with a grand fight.
Notes
Broadside LOCSinging as107470: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
Cross references
- cf. "Lanigan's Ball" (tune, per broadside LOCSinging as107470)
Broadsides
- LOCSinging, as107470, "Larry Magee's Wedding," H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864
References
- O'Conor pp. 83-84, "Larry Magee's Wedding" (1 text)
- BI, OCon083