Bridget O'Flynn (Where've Ya Been?)

DESCRIPTION: "Bridget O'Flynn, where have you been? This is a nice time for you to come in!" Her mother asks what she has been doing. Her boyfriend's car broke. She's been at the parade. No, she has been to a dance. Stay away! "That's where I met your father"
AUTHOR: Words: Andrew B. Sterling / Music: Robert King (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: mother warning technology music dancing father
FOUND IN:
Roud #V70079
RECORDINGS:
The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones & Ernest Hare), "Bridget O'Flynn" (Gennett 6492-B, 1927)
Creek Iversen, "Bridget O'Lynn" (Condensed version: Piotr-Archive #858, recorded 05/17/2024)
Billy Murray & Aileen Stanley, "Bridget O'Flynn" (Victor 20240-A, 1927)
NOTES [31 words]: The 78 recordings of this all seem to be prefaced by spoken moralistic commentaries intended, I think, to be funny. More recent recordings seem to dispense with the prefaces. Mercifully. RBW
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File: DPio858

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