Sweet Marie (Parody)

DESCRIPTION: "From the fields of war I come, Sweet Marie, Will you kiss me welcome home, love, to thee?" "I am only skin and bones... And I'm full of army prunes as can be." "Oh, I got it in the neck." "Now I'm with you once again... you seem not to identify me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks); 1953 (Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric)
KEYWORDS: love separation soldier war injury hardtimes food humorous derivative
FOUND IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 156, "Parody of 'Sweet Marie'" (1 text, 1 tune)
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, pp. 27-28, "Sweet Marie" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #11354
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sweet Marie" (source of parody)
NOTES [87 words]: Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric's informant Mary Drake of Huntsville, Alabama claimed to have written this. The existence of a similar parody from McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks (which was collected four years earlier) surely argues against this, although McIntosh's version is more about hard times and disease, so it might be that Drake wrote an army version and someone else the hard times version. I thought about splitting the two, but since neither seems to be common, I'm allowing them to stay together. - RBW
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File: Brne156

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