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Thread #81177   Message #1485178
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
15-May-05 - 02:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add:Married Woman's Lament (wish I was single)
Subject: RE: A Married Woman's Lament (wish I was single)
Belden collected this song in 1907. The version is not as complete as the one in Randolph, or that Michael Morris gives, so no point in posting it.
"When I Was Single," p. 437, from a Mrs. E. A. McKay, Knox Co., MO in 1907. H. M. Belden, "Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society," 1940.
Belden commented that it likely came from a printed piece or the music hall. Very widespread.