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Thread #88264 Message #1655596
Posted By: GUEST,HughM
25-Jan-06 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: English song about marriage warnings
Subject: RE: English song about marriage warnings
In Keith Marsden's song "Willy 'Ole Lad" a father warns his daughter not to marry a man he fears will be a gambler and will be nasty when he comes home drunk. (The "Willy 'Ole" is part of a woollen mill in which the work is very unpleasant.) I don't know whether the song has ever been recorded, but it can be found in the book "Picking Sooty Blackberries", ISBN 1 871318 01 7, published by Fellsongs Music Publishing.