The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43711   Message #1476221
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
02-May-05 - 12:34 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Irish Molly / My Irish Molly O
Subject: RE: Origins: Irish Molly
The DT set of the vaudeville song looks as if it was transcribed by ear (and with mistakes: "go out with game"?!), perhaps from the old De Danann record (The Star Spangled Molly, 1981) mentioned earlier. They didn't provide a proper attribution, but implied that they'd learned it off a Flanagan Brothers '78, which would have made a good 20 years after the song was written. The extra verse could have been added at any time.