The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74494 Message #3949076
Posted By: Joe Offer
08-Sep-18 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
Subject: RE: Origins: Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
The version in the Rise Up Singing songbook is Step It Out, Nancy, a 1979 rewrite of "Step It Out, Mary" by Robin M. Williams and Jerome Clark. The additional Holly Near verse at the end is this:
The moral of this story is not that murder pays But that women must not be bought and sold, neither then nor nowadays We will choose our lovers, we'll live out our own lives We'll love whom we please with a passion and a sparkle in our eyes.