“The Peasant's Bride (Thady and I)”
Description
"I was a simple country girl." She loves Thady: "with hook or scythe, with plow or spade, He'd beat ten men together" They marry and many nobles "would gladly give a crown of gold To be like me and Thady."
Broadsides
- Bodleian, Firth b.28(9a/b) view 7 of 8, "Thady and I", R. March & Co (London), 1877-1884
References
- O'Conor, pp. 120,123, "The Peasant's Bride" (1 text, 1 tune)
- ADDITIONAL: Edward Hayes, The Ballads of Ireland (Boston, 1859), Vol II, p. 84, "The Peasant's Bride"
- BI, OCon120