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Thread #54913 Message #852927
Posted By: masato sakurai
23-Dec-02 - 11:59 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Wife Died on a Saturday Night/Plank Rd
Subject: Lyr Add: A MONDAY WAS MY COURTING DAY
From: Sharp, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, vol. II (p. 277; with tune):
A MONDAY WAS MY COURTING DAY Sung by Mrs. Ellen Webb at Burnsville, N.C., Oct., 1918
Last Saturday night my wife taken sick, A-Sunday she was buried, A-Monday was my courting day, A-Tuesday I got married.
So look a lookey there, So look a lookey there, So look all over yander. O don't you see the old grey goose A-smiling at the gander.