Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'

24 Jan 26 - 08:36 PM (#4234884)
Subject: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

especially about or by women.

My name is Macnamara
Peter Emberly
Sam Hall
Captain Kidd
Jon Johnson
Jack Haggerty?
O'Hanlon

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24 Jan 26 - 09:47 PM (#4234887)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Sandra in Sydney

Traditional Australian song - My name is Edward Kelly - collected in the 50s

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24 Jan 26 - 09:56 PM (#4234888)
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From: cnd

Kidder Cole
Story of George Mann [Laws E38d]
My Name is Ticklish Reuben
My Name Is Morgan (But It Ain't J.P.)

sorry, none by or about women that I know of

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24 Jan 26 - 10:06 PM (#4234889)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Helen

Slim Shady

(sorry! couldn't help myself there!)

Jock Stewart

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24 Jan 26 - 10:18 PM (#4234890)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

I loosen my own boundaries. I really like songs where people are said to have written it themselves.

MacPherson's Lament
Chanson de Louis Riel

I wrote my name is Frieda Schiller I am a dairy maid
and My name is Inga plain and stout

I might be writing one about the Maine Lobster Lady who just died at the age of 105 and worked till 103.

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24 Jan 26 - 10:26 PM (#4234891)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

John O'Dreams
Freida Schiller
Robert Baker???
MacPherson's Lament
Chanson De Louis Riel (my restrictions are getting more loose now)
"Éamonn an Chnoic"

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24 Jan 26 - 10:55 PM (#4234892)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

my name is cole bostwick -- lumberjack from Kelso Washington who died years ago in an awful accident.

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24 Jan 26 - 11:26 PM (#4234894)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Pappy Fiddle

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only came 'a town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
etc.

That's Copperhead Road

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24 Jan 26 - 11:47 PM (#4234895)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GerryM

Oh, my name, it ain't nothing (Bob Dylan, With God on Our Side).

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25 Jan 26 - 03:10 AM (#4234898)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)

Captain Grant
Jock Stewart
Hugh Reynolds

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25 Jan 26 - 04:23 AM (#4234900)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Acorn4

By coincidence I've just finished writing this one - it's about a serving maid burned at the stake in Leicester in 1605 for aiding and abetting in the murder of her mistress, for the crime of petty treason:-

Alice Grimbold’s Tale

My name is Alice Grimbold, in Leicester was employed
In a position as a humble serving maid.
For the killing of my mistress, guilty I was found
And to be burned at the stake my sentence handed down.

1.Now Agnes was the landlady of the Blue Boar Inn
Famous from that time when Richard was the King,
And on that fateful final night before that battle it fell
He brought his own bed to that inn, so that he might sleep well

2.For many years within that room that bed it had stayed put
And many a gust slept well within without a second thought
Now before Agnes’s husband died, a rumour spread around
When that couple unexpectedly new wealth seem to have found

3. The bed had a false bottom, and contained within
A hoard of gold and silver coins hidden by that King
Until one day by accident, Agnes found this store
When a single coin fell out and rolled onto the floor.

4. I met one Thomas Harrison, a rake and a roaring blade
He courted me with a promise that we would be married
But he proved a false knave to be, that led me to my fate
To be thrust into those flames tied unto that stake

5. Now Thomas Harrison he did plot to steal away this store
And to this end intrigued with one by name Edward Bradshaw
And to this end I was led astray, accessory to be
And my inside knowledge used to commit this felony.

6. This couple they then hired a room to bring about this plan
Myself and the other maid were tied and taken to the barn
But as part of this cunning plan, I was the set free,
That chest of gold and silver to locate the keys

7. Now Agnes was securely bound but made a dreadful scene
And being so terrified she began to scream
Bradshaw the to silence her put his fingers down her throat
Which led at last to the result that poor Agnes choked

8. Now this said Thomas Harrison very soon was caught
And along with Edward Bradshaw to trial was soon brought
And as an accomplice I was brought to trial
And of my involvement I could make no denial

9. Those wretches soon were guilty found and on the gallows hanged
But for the murder of my mistress I too was condemned
For the crime of petty treason was decreed my fate
That I would be taken on that day to be burned at the stake.

10, A curse on Thomas Harrison and that path he made me tread,
And on Edward Bradshaw who killed poor Agnes dead
A curse upon that wretched law that fell so hard on me
Just a poor serving maid treated so badly

My name is Alice Grimbold, in Leicester was employed
In a position as a humble serving maid.
For the killing of my mistress, guilty I was found
And to be burned at the stake my sentence handed down

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25 Jan 26 - 05:09 AM (#4234901)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,Hootenanny

Charles Giteau

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25 Jan 26 - 08:08 AM (#4234906)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Reinhard

William Coombe (Roud 3318): My name is Willy Coomb, just twenty in my bloom
Captain Grant (Roud 1286): My name is Captain Grant I am bound for to say
Catch Me If You Can (Roud 1028) My name is catch me that’s if you can
Jim the Carter Lad (Roud 1080; G/D 3:457):My name is Joe the carrier lad, a merry chap am I
Jim the Carter Lad (Roud 1080; G/D 3:457):My name is Jim the carter lad, a jolly cock am I
Lizzie Lindsay (Roud 94; Child 226; G/D 4:858): My name is Lord Ronald McDonald
Maggie Lauder (Roud 5625): My name is Maggie Lauder
Maggie Lauder (Roud 5625): My name is Rab the Ranter
Robin Hood and Little John (Roud 1322; Child 125): My name is John Little, a man of good mettle
The Shannon Side / Captain Thunderbolt (Roud 1453): My name is Captain Thunderbowl and the truth I’ll never deny
The Shannon Side / Captain Thunderbolt (Roud 1453): My name is Captain Walters, my name I will never deny
Willie Angler / The Banks of the Bann (Roud 3473; Henry H614): My name is Willie Angler, and you might understand
Murder of Maria Marten (Roud 215): My name is William Corder, to you I do declare
Banks of the Bann (Roud 889; Laws O2): My name is Delaney, it’s a name that won’t shame me
Jack the Jolly Tar / Do Me Ama (Roud 511; Laws K40): My name is Jack, and my ship’s the London
The Flying Cloud (Roud 1802; Laws K28; G/D 1:44): My name is William Hollander, as you will understand
Davy Lowston: My name is Davy Lowston, I did seal, I did seal
His Name Is Andrew [David Ackles]: My name is Andrew
Mary Neal (Roud 142; Laws M17): I am a bold undaunted youth. My name is John McCann
The Devil and the Feathery Wife (Roud 12551): My name is Duncan, said the diel
Shillin’ a Day [Rudyard Kipling]: My name is O’Kelly, I’ve heard the Revelly
The Robber’s Song [Peter Bellamy]: My name is Abe Carman
Josef Locke [Richard Thompson]: My name is Josef Locke
It Suits Me Well [Sandy Denny]: My name is Jan the gypsy
John the Gun [Sandy Denny]: My name is John the Gun
Tam Lin (Roud 35; Child 39; G/D 2:330): My name is Lady Margaret
Death and the Lady (Roud 1031): My name is Death, cannot you see?
Dennis O’Reilly (Roud 676) My name is Dennis O’Reilly
Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842): My name is Captain Wedderburn, a servant tae the King
The Aylesbury Girl (Roud 364): My name is Mickey the drover boy, from Dublin town come I
The Aylesbury Girl (Roud 364): My name is Jack the rover, from Dublin I did’st come
Bold Doherty (Roud 2992): My name is Bold Doherty from the North Country
Bright Shiny Morning (Roud 2; Laws Q26): My name is Loretta but don’t call my name
Jamie Raeburn (Roud 600; G/D 8:1535): My name is Jamie Raeburn, frae Glasgow toon I came

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25 Jan 26 - 09:10 AM (#4234907)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,gillymor

My name is Luka by Suzanne Vega

My name is Bocephus by Hank Williams Jr. I can't say I'm a fan but I'm definitely a fan of Hank Sr.

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25 Jan 26 - 09:24 AM (#4234908)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,gillymor

Not sure this counts but "I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler" by Tom Paxton.

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25 Jan 26 - 02:00 PM (#4234920)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

great new song and so many to add to my list.

I thought of another that might be on the list as Carter Lad.

My name is Buttercup Joe.

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25 Jan 26 - 03:20 PM (#4234926)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: MaJoC the Filk

.... can't .... resist ....

My name's Lead-Fingers Wedlock and my story's seldom told

.... but who actually wrote it?

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25 Jan 26 - 04:31 PM (#4234929)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Jack Campin

Oh my name it is Van Gogh...

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25 Jan 26 - 07:53 PM (#4234941)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: rich-joy

My name's Polly Parker, I come o'er from Worsley
My mother and father work down the coal mine ......

'The Collier Lass' should already be in Mudcat.

R-J

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25 Jan 26 - 10:08 PM (#4234946)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Howard Kaplan

[My name is] Wilhelmina Cord, a song by Eric Blau, sung by Elly Stone.
There's a YouTube video of the recording here.

My name is Francis Tolliver, Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon.

Oh my name is Penny Evans, the Ballad of Penny Evans by Steve Goodman.

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25 Jan 26 - 10:36 PM (#4234947)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Stilly River Sage

My name is Yon Yonson (is how it shows on YouTube) appears above as My Name is Jon Johnson. I always think of that as a children's song, or a silly ditty, but it's nice to see that Carl Sandburg recorded it. (This video itself is awful, it isn't synced to the music, it's just background. The song itself sounds good and is probably from one of Sanburg's records.

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26 Jan 26 - 04:21 AM (#4234954)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: John MacKenzie

Sam Hall
Captain Kidd

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26 Jan 26 - 08:00 AM (#4234961)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,Roger

Thomas Muir.

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26 Jan 26 - 09:05 AM (#4234967)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Beer

Canadian Newfoundland singer/songwriter Ron Hynes(passed away November 19th 2015) wrote the following.

My name is nobody
I'm a weary traveller out upon a lost highway
I come all the way from hell with this tale to tell
Like many here before me
Calling to be set free
My name is nobody
And I am rightly blessed
I heard a voice that cried out inside the wilderness
I awoke and my heart and soul were in despair
Like a sailor lost at sea
No ship to rescue me
My name is nobody
CHORUS:
So I take it one day at a time
I walk the hard line above this blessed sod
And I'm still living with this fear
But I'm still here with all these children of god
My name is nobody
My name is nobody
I'm a weary traveller out across a lost highway
Every night as I lay down I say a silent prayer
That morning light will find me here
Without this cross to bear
My name is nobody
CHORUS:
So I take it one day at a time
I walk the hard line above this blessed sod
And I'm still living with this fear
But I'm still here
I'm still living with this fear
But I'm still here
I am still living with this fear
But I'm still here with all these children of god
My name is nobody

Adrien

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26 Jan 26 - 11:58 AM (#4234972)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,James E

"Me name is Jim Parkinson, Hull’s where I’m from" – Mike Waterson's Cold Coast of Iceland.

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26 Jan 26 - 01:53 PM (#4234974)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

Great songs. I think the one phrase I find most powerful is "My name is O'Hanlon."

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26 Jan 26 - 01:57 PM (#4234975)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Johnny J

"my name is Jack" Manfred Mann
"My name is Luka" Suzanne Vega

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26 Jan 26 - 03:12 PM (#4234978)
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From: John MacKenzie

My name Dick Darby I'm a cobbler.

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26 Jan 26 - 04:59 PM (#4234986)
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From: Johnny J

"My name's Duncan Campbell from the shire of Argyll"

Erin Go Bragh

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26 Jan 26 - 09:42 PM (#4235002)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST

My name is Maureen Monahan my age is 93. I have a little baby that I never got to see.

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26 Jan 26 - 10:29 PM (#4235004)
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From: Beer

My name is Peter Emberley, as you may understand.
I was born on Prince Edward lsland near by the ocean strand.
ln eighteen hundred and eighty when the flowers were in bloom.
I left my native country my fortune to pursue.
etc.

Adrien

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27 Jan 26 - 04:24 AM (#4235006)
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From: GUEST,Guest, Erich

(My name is) Penny Evans (Steve Goodman, Sands Family)
My name is Carnival (Jackson C. Frank)
My name is London (Reg Meuross)

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27 Jan 26 - 06:58 AM (#4235011)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Paul Burke

Brought to mind one my mother used to sing... can't remember many of the words. Probably a bit dodgy by today's standards. Obviously from, or adapted to, Manchester area.

My name is Solomon Levi,
It's a name that's very well known,
I live in the borough of Cheetham Hill
With a business of my own.

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27 Jan 26 - 12:46 PM (#4235019)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,gillymor

"My name it is Mulvaney"- from Richard Thompson's Cooksferry Queen

I seem to remember a verse from Banks of the Bann that also begins "My name it is Mulvaney".

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28 Jan 26 - 05:45 PM (#4235079)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,Joe in MN

It's the start of the chorus, at least, of a one-hit wonder from 1972 called Playground in my Mind by Clint Holmes:

My name is Michael, I've got a nickel
I've got a nickel shiny and new
I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy
That's what I'm gonna do

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28 Jan 26 - 06:21 PM (#4235080)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

that last one reminds me of I am a pretty little Dutch Girl

I have written 3 name songs in the last 3 days, after two years of nothing coming to me. What is interesting they are all about children/young teens. They must want to be heard from.

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29 Jan 26 - 03:58 AM (#4235090)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,Dick Miles

Sam Hall

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29 Jan 26 - 05:40 AM (#4235098)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Georgiansilver

https://youtu.be/_VhWKBD2rEk?si=TFwLnaY3CJFAQsYq My name is Jock Stuart in tge link. Great Scottish song about a rich landowner, boastfully relating his days happenings to the workers in a local pub.

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29 Jan 26 - 06:32 AM (#4235104)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Jack Campin

Solomon Levi was a real person (philandering salesman) and Vivi Lachs features the song on her CD of the music of the East End of London Jews, "Whitechapel, meyn Vaytshepl".

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29 Jan 26 - 12:19 PM (#4235119)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST

‘I’m Darby the tinker and me brother is Tam..’
(‘The Old Changing Way’, Richard Thompson)

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29 Jan 26 - 02:08 PM (#4235123)
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From: Paul Burke

Thanks Jack, that's led me on to this on YouTube: the same tune my mother used. Written by Fred Seaver in 1885, obviously transplanted to Manchester between then and my parents' heyday of the 1930s-40s. I wish I could remember more of the words. Or perhaps better not, depending on who wrote the relocated version.

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29 Jan 26 - 04:02 PM (#4235125)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Aethelric

Jarrow song by Alan Price

My name is Geordie McIntyre, An' the Bairns don't even have a fire
So the wife says "Geordie, go to London Town!"
And if they don't give us half a chance, Don't even give us a second glance
Then Geordie, with my blessings, burn them down

Come on follow the Geordie boys, They'll fill your heart with joy
They're marching for their freedom now
Come on follow the Jarrow lads, They'll make your heart feel glad
They're singing now, yes now is the hour

My name is little Billy White, And I know what's wrong and I know what's right
An' the wife says "Geordie, go to London Town!"
An' if they don't give us a couple of bob, Won't even give you a decent job
Then Geordie, with my blessings, burn them down

Come on follow the Geordie boys, They'll fill your heart with joy
They're marching for their freedom now
Come on follow the Jarrow lads, The joy'll make your heart feel glad
They're singing now, yes now is the hour

Well I can hear them an' I can feel them
An' it's as just as if they were here today
I can see them, I can feel them
An' I'm thinking nothing's changed much today

Not all came here to stay their way and die
But they would come and hit you in the eye
Now's the time to realize that time goes on
Nothin' changes, changes, changes

Now I can feel them, I can see them
An' it's as just as if they were here today
I can feel them and I need them
An' I'm thinking nothing's changed much today

Not all that people stay their way and die
But they would come and hit you in the eye
Now's the time to realize that time goes on
And nothin' changes, changes, changes

My name is little Alan Price, I tried to be nice all of my life
But I'm afraid that up to date it doesn't work
Because when you lay some money down, The people try to put you down
Now where do I stand, either side or not

Come on follow this Geordie boy, He'll try and fill your heart with joy
We're marching for our freedom now
Come on follow this Jarrow lad, He'll try and make your heart feel glad
We're sayin' it now, yes now is the hour

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30 Jan 26 - 03:07 PM (#4235163)
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From: Jack Campin

I heard Vivi talking about her research into East End Jewish songs once - she said that a lot of them needed to be pieced together from fragments, but that one didn't. If you went into an old folks home in that part of the world, ALL the old ladies knew it.

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01 Feb 26 - 10:56 PM (#4235231)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Julia

Interesting that it seems to be mostly men

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01 Feb 26 - 11:07 PM (#4235232)
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From: GUEST,mg

true. I have several -- Freida Schiller - dairy maid.
Mary Flynn - irish mosser girl
Ginnie Oliver -- lobsterwoman
Maureen Monahan - Magdalen Laundries

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02 Feb 26 - 01:46 AM (#4235237)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST,mg

I will post the words to Maureen Monahan here. A Monahan wrote me and said how did you know? I didn't know but his mother was in that same situation.. I might forget some of the words. Tune Wearing of the Green.

My name is Maureen Monahan my age is 93
I have a little baby that they never brought to me
It might have been a daughter it might have been a son
I never got to see it so it could be either one.

If a boy I named you Paddy if a girl I named you Clare
And yes you have a father and his name is Jack O'Hare.
And for you old Mother Ireland how could you use us so
When we were young and pregnant and had no where else to go

Babies in their little cribs and children eight or nine
All starving in their little cribs???? and one of them was mine
And when they drew their final breath in those buildings dark and dank
They were wrapped up in their little shrouds? and thrown in the septic tank

So farewell little Paddy and farewell little Clare
If I had known what might have happened I'd have never left you there
I'd have sold myself for pennies to sailors on the street
But by God and all that's holy you'd have had enough to eat.

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02 Feb 26 - 07:26 AM (#4235252)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: Beer

Would love to hear the melody to this song. I can't find it. I have to say it is one I have never heard.
Thanks mg

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02 Feb 26 - 02:12 PM (#4235268)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs starting with 'My name is ...'
From: GUEST

correction 300 little babies and children 8 or 9
all starving in their little cots and one of them was mine

refers to the orphanage situation in Tuam Ireland where children were apparently tossed into septic tanks, unused ones thank heavens

tune sung   by john McCormick. only part A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY61CUOkwmk&list=RDkY61CUOkwmk&start_radio=1

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