“The Shirt I Left Behind”
Description
The singer quits Dan McCann's lodgings but leaves his shirt. McCann's daughter tells him to retrieve it. That night, drunk, he sees the shirt coming down the street, hit it with a brick, and kills McCann's daughter who was in it. He is fined ten quid.
Notes
Maybe it needs to be sung to be "humorous." [Alternately, maybe one needed to know McCann and/or his daughter? Perhaps there is a reason the song is not widely known.... - RBW] The parody is only in the tune and "the shirt I left behind me" end of each verse. - BS
Cross references
- cf. "The Girl I Left Behind Me (II - lyric)" (tune) and references there
References
- McBride 64, "The Shirt I Left Behind" (1 text, 1 tune)
- BI, McB1064