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Lyr Req: The made match

28 Dec 25 - 08:37 PM (#4233550)
Subject: Lyr Req: The made match
From: GUEST,Julia L

Looking for other exetended versions of this song, (not "Never Wed and Old Man" This seems to have a more desperate or sinister flavor)

The Made Match
Eileen Finnemore of Portland, Maine. Recorded November 4, 1941 by Eloise Linscott

Shut the door, dear Nanny, and don't let Samuel in
For as sure as he comes there's an end to my life,
For he never will have the pleasure of calling me his wife.

Cruel they were, my parents, as you may understand
Marrying me to an old gray man for the sake of money and land,
But he never will have the pleasure of calling me his wife.