Whew...this tune add stuff is hard work! It really makes me appriciate Dick, Susan, Joe and all the elves.

I wanted to help with the missing tunes that MMario is working on, so I immediately saw one of my favorites, Bachelor's Hall. Well, things aren't quite so simple! There are two versions in the DT, neither have tunes, and neither appears to be the version I know. So here are the words to the Jean Ritchie version. I've sent a midi (which I copied from Lesley Nelson with her permission) to Alan. Hope I sending all these to the right places.

BACHELOR'S HALL
traditional

Oh hard is my fortune and hard is my fate,
Controlled by my mother so early and late,
And when I get married just to end all the strife,
Controlled by a man for the rest of my life.

O, young men go a-courtin' they dress up so fine,
They cheat the girls up, that is all their design;
They'll titter, they'll tatter,
They'll laugh and they'll lie,
They'll cheat the girls up till they're ready to die.

When young men go a-courtin' they stay up all night,
Get out in the mornin' and look like a sight;
They saddle their horses, they rock and they reel,
Dag-gone them old girls, how sleepy I do feel!

O, bachelor's hall it is bound to be best,
Get drunk or stay sober, lay down take your rest,
No woman to scold you, no children to bawl,
So happy is the man that keeps bachelor's hall.

This is the version sung by Jean Ritchie.
MT

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