“Smiggy Maglooral”

Description

Smiggey marries a maid (or fights in Bull Run). The maid winds the clock and milks the cow "from the chimney top." She has a cramp (or gets the croup) and "they brought her to with some turtle soup." She meets Mose, they come to blows and home she goes.

Supplemental text

Smiggy Maglooral
  Partial text(s)

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I Have a Wife

From Helen Creighton, Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick,
#71, p. 155. Collected from Angelo Dornan, Elgin, N. B.

I have a wife, she is neat and clean,
With me fie o laddie,
She sets the milk and she gathers cream
And her name is Ural, Maggie Mural,
Stig McGural and Stig McGue.

(2 additional stanzas)

Notes

Broadside LOCSinging as203350 and Bodleian Harding B 18(711): 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

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 18(711), "Smiggey McGuirrel", H. De Marsan (New York) , 1861-1864 [same as LOCSinging as203350]
• LOCSinging, as203350, "Smiggey McGuirrel", H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864 [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(711)]

References

1. Creighton-SNewBrunswick 71, "I Have a Wife" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. O'Conor, p. 143, "Smiggy Maglooral" (1 text)
3. ST OCon143 (Partial)
4. BI, OCon143