“The Young Man Badly Walked”
Description
The singer comes to Belfast and meets a girl. They stop for drinks. She takes him "home." He pays the landlady, planning to marry next day. He wakes alone, with no watch, chain, money, coat, or boots. A man throws him out. "Simple country lads," beware.
Notes
Leyden: "A song set in High Street and York Street [Belfast] in the late 1870s." - BS
Cross references
- cf. "Gold Watch [Laws K41]" (plot) and references there
- cf. "The Reason Why" (plot)
References
- Leyden 30, "The Young Man Badly Walked" (1 text)
- BI, Leyd030