My Mother Did So Before Me

DESCRIPTION: "I am a brisk and bonny lass, A little over twenty," but not risheing to get married: "The men I'll tease, myself to please, My mother did so before me." She likes being noticed. When she marries, she will "manage... My husband to perfection"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1866 (Dime-Song-Book #17, which says it was copyrighted by Oliver Ditson & Co)
KEYWORDS: love courting husband clothes mother
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #116, "My Mother Did So Before Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #10, p. 46, "My Mother did so Before Me" (1 text)
Roud #6915
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.28(35), "My mamma did so before me," T Watts (Birmingham), n.d.
File: BGSW116

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