Old Man, Old Man

DESCRIPTION: "Old man, old man, can I have your daughter? Yes sir, yes sir, take her if you want her." "Get her old duds and put her up behind"; whip her if she misbehaves. The singer hopes she will "bake my bread and carry my water." Animals go walking together.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage age animal floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2, pp. 16-17, "Old Man, Old Man" (1 composite text, 1 tune)
Roud #7026
NOTES [53 words]: This is a conundrum. Bush's version is a composite. Many pieces of it exist in other songs. Is it really one song? I rather doubt it, but the version printed in Bush, as a collective entity, does not seem to exist elsewhere -- so it file as its own song even though I doubt that this collective entity is traditional. - RBW
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File: BWV2016

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