Rakes of Mallow, The

DESCRIPTION: "Beauing, belleing, dancing, drinking, Breaking windows, damning, sinking, Ever raking, never thinking, Live the rakes of Mallow." This self-centered life continues until "they get sober, take a wife, Ever after live in strife"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1839 (Croker-PopularSongsOfIreland)
KEYWORDS: drink party wine rake
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland, p. 93, "The Rakes of Mallow" (1 text)
Croker-PopularSongsOfIreland, pp. 249-250, "The Rakes of Mallow" (1 text)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 164, "The Rakes of Mallow" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: H. Halliday Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy (London, 1888), pp. 483-484, 514, "The Rakes of Mallow"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sandy Lent the Man His Mull" (tune, according to Croker-PopularSongsOfIreland)
SAME TUNE:
Old Parson Brown ("Not long ago, in our town") (Wolf-AmericanSongSheets p. 116)
NOTES [95 words]: Croker-PopularSongsOfIreland: "In 1750, Dr Smith thus describes Mallow, which was then a very fashionable watering-place:'... Here is generally a resort of good company during the summer months, both for pleasure and the benefit of drinking the waters....'"
Sparling: "Eighteenth century. The 'Rakes' were the sons of the Protestant gentlemen who frequented the 'waters' of Mallow." - BS
Broadside Bodleian, Harding B 40(11), "The Rakes of Mallow" ("Beauing, belling dancing, drinking"), J.F. Nugent and Co.? (Dublin?), 1850-1899 could not be downloaded and verified. - BS
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