Paddy Hart

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you gallus sporting men and boys that fall the pine, I hope you'll pay attention and just listen to this rhyme" iabout Paddy Hart, whose ancestry was noble. He loves fighting, drink, women. Left to freeze by a widow, he reforms and goes west
AUTHOR: unknown (but see NOTES)
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan)
KEYWORDS: humorous drink lumbering rejection travel
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, pp. 218-223, "Paddy Hart" (1 text)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 105, "Paddy Hart" (1 text)
Roud #6502
NOTES [53 words]: Beck had this at about third hand from an informant who claimed this was written by "Big Head McGinness, who also wrote 'White River Drive.'" I know of no traditional song by that name, but the description of McGinness sounds a bit like the "Dan McGinnis" who wrote "Jack Haggerty (The Flat River Girl)" [Laws C25]. - RBW
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