Lyr Req: 'She's a pretty little dear...'

Subject: Need information and lyrics.
From: tully
Date: 23 Mar 98 - 12:29 PM

Need lyrics for a 1920's song that goes; "She's a pretty little dear and she lives in town, her daddy is a butcher and his name is Brown. Her beauty is of much renown, she's the girl for me...." Also would like any information about the song and possibly a source for a recording of the same.

Subject: RE: Need information and lyrics.
From: PKD on Teesside
Date: 24 Mar 98 - 02:31 AM

Do you mean

Old Brown's daughter, she's a proper sort of girl, Old Brown's daughter she's as bright as any pearl. I wish I was a Lord Mayor, a Marquis or an Earl, I'm blowed I wouldn't marry Old Browns Girl

Cos if you do, I would mind them words either !

Subject: RE: Need information and lyrics.
From: mulley
Date: 24 Mar 98 - 09:24 AM

If the lyrics you are after are the same as those from PKD on teeside then you can find the song called,"Old Browns Daughter" on a CD named English Traditional Folk Music on the fellside label.I can't remember the singer but I'll check for you tonight and I'll get the words too. Bye for now from Mulley!

Subject: RE: Need information and lyrics.
From:
Date: 24 Mar 98 - 06:47 PM

Old Brown's Daughter also has a Newfoundland version. I didn't know it was English in origin but I should have suspected as much, as there isn't much in the way of Marquises and Earls on The Rock. I have it in a version sung by Newfoundlander Ron Hynes, the fellow who wrote Sonny's Dream.

Subject: RE: Need information and lyrics.
From: Tully
Date: 26 Mar 98 - 12:32 PM

Tim Is the song on one of Ron's albums? ALso, thanks to everyone for the help. Tully

Subject: RE: Need information and lyrics.
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28 Mar 98 - 01:58 PM

Old Brown's Daughter is alive and well in the database. A good place to start out a search for a song. I searched for Brown's.

Subject: RE: Need information and lyrics.
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 09:04 AM

The lyrics that Tully quoted in the original request are actually from I HAD BUT FIFTY CENTS.