“There's A Girl in the Heart of Maryland”
Description
"In a quaint, old-fashioned garden in a quaint, old-fashioned town... Where the old Potomac's llowing, that is where I long to be." "There's a girl in the heart of Maryland with a heart that belongs to me." He asks that the parson be ready when he returns
Notes
According to Sigmund Spaeth, _A History of Popular Music in America_, MacDonald and Carroll had two big hits in 1913: This and "On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine" (the latter apparently being the first-published, since it is mentioned on the sheet music of this piece). Both produced quite a few other pop hits, though very few of them made the jump into oral tradition. - RBW
References
- Dean, pp. 88-89, "There?s a Girl in the Heart of Maryland" (1 text)
- Roud #9571
- BI, Dean088