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Thread #54913   Message #852037
Posted By: masato sakurai
22-Dec-02 - 12:32 AM
Thread Name: Origins: My Wife Died on a Saturday Night/Plank Rd
Subject: RE: Lyr. Req: My Wife Died on A Sat. Night
Last Saturday night me wife she died,
And Sunday she was buried;
Monday I went courtin',
And Tuesday I was married.

(From: Mary O. Eddy, Ballads and Songs from Ohio, J.J. Augustin, 1939, p. 319; one of the "Fragments of Irish Songs"; without tune)