Lyr Req: Big Enough for Two (Jay Ungar, Lyn Hardy)

Subject: My heart is big enough for two
From:
Date: 18 Jul 00 - 07:22 PM

Don't know if this song is Country, Folk , probably singer song writer . I know I heard it on the radio years ago . Think it might have been on a radio show called Something Different . All I can remember is that it was sung by a woman . and the line "can I help it if my my heart is big enough for two" About a woman that falls in love too easily I think ? Looked those words up every which way to sunday . It's driving me crazy . Can any body help ? Dee

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My heart is big enough for two
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 04:55 PM

Sorry I do not know but if we stop it falling off the bottom of the world, I'm sure some kind soul will help.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My heart is big enough for two
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 25 Nov 02 - 12:21 AM

The song is called "Big Enough for Two" and it was sung by Lyn Hardy on Catskill Mountain Goose Chase, one of the albums she made with Jay Ungar some 20 or so years ago. The tape is still available from Rounder Records (click the link).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My heart is big enough for two
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 19 May 04 - 01:17 PM

Or is it this one? called "I'll build a Tower Over You?

Sung by Kiki Dee, I think.

Lin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Big Enough for Two (Jay Ungar, Lyn Hardy)
From: PHJim
Date: 30 Oct 19 - 10:20 AM

The first open mic Maggie and I played at circa 1981, she sang this song. We haven't done it in thirty years. I loved it. Time to dig it out again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Big Enough for Two (Jay Ungar, Lyn Hardy)
From: MickyMan
Date: 10 Aug 24 - 03:02 PM

It's a gem of a comical song about a married woman who finds that her heart is "big enough for two" .... and it doesn't quite stop there. ?

Does anybody conclusively know who wrote it?

I have accompanied Terri Ficarro of the Portable Folk Festival, who has sung it since Lyn & Jay brought it to the "Sounding Board Coffeehouse" in 1979-ish?

Here it is on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqGGyQCcLUQ

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Big Enough for Two (Jay Ungar, Lyn Hardy)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 11 Aug 24 - 07:29 AM

Big Enough For Two Written by Jay Ungar, Lyn Hardy. [Discogs]
Track A5 from the album "Catskill Mountain Goose Chase" (1977)

Bass – Tony Markellis
Clarinet, Tin Whistle [Pennywhistle] – Billy Novick
Fiddle – Aly Bain (tracks: A6, B5)
Fiddle, Mandolin, Guitar, Vocals, Producer – Jay Ungar
Hammered Dulcimer, Banjo, Bones, Spoons, Percussion [Plank], Bodhrán – Sandy Davis (9)
Mandolin – Dave Richardson (tracks: B5)
Rhythm Guitar, Jew's Harp, Vocals – Lyn Hardy

Molly Mason was in a trio with Jay Ungar and his then-wife Lynn Hardy. She later joined Ungar’s quintet Fiddle Fever, and in 1985, after Ungar and Hardy split, began playing with him in duo format. They were married in 1991.