Wealthy Merchant (I), The

DESCRIPTION: "There was a wealthy merchant, in Charleston he did dwell, He had a pretty woman, and a tailor loved her well, Singin' roddy hida togger, singin' roddy hi go tay." The rest is said to be bawdy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2)
KEYWORDS: bawdy
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2, p. 76, "The Wealthy Merchant" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #7033
NOTES [69 words]: Bush maintains that this is a fragment of an otherwise-forgotten bawdy song. But if the informant forgot all the words, we obviously cannot be sure that he remembered what the song was about! It might be any of a number of songs that start with the lines, "There was a wealthy (merchant), in X he did dwell"; the lines are perhaps most typical of "Jack Monroe (Jackie Frazer; The Wars of Germany)" [Laws N7]. - RBW
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File: BWV2076

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