Day That I Played Baseball, The

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, my name it is O'Houlihan, I'm a man that's influential." He normally lives a quiet life, but one day is convinced to play baseball. He strikes out, he hits fouls but runs the bases anyway; he ends up drunk and on a cattle train
AUTHOR: Pat Rooney (Sr.)
EARLIEST DATE: 1878 (sheet music, titled "The Day That I Played Base Ball")
KEYWORDS: humorous sports
FOUND IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Dean-FlyingCloud, pp. 58-59, "The Day That I Played Baseball" (1 text)
Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart1 17, "Baseball" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp.189, "(no title)" (fragment, presented as a model for "The Horse Wrangler")
Roud #4961
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Horse Wrangler (The Tenderfoot)" [Laws B27]
SAME TUNE:
The Horse Wrangler (The Tenderfoot) [Laws B27] (File: LB27)
NOTES [98 words]: According to William H. A. Williams, 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, University of Illinois Press, 1996, p. 122, "The two most famous clog dancers associated with Irish acts were both named Pat Rooney -- father and son, each very famous in his day (there was a third Pat Rooney, a grandson, who also danced). Patrick James Rooney, the patriarch, was born in Birmingham, England, in 1844 and emigrated to America. By the 1880s he was a top Irish song-and-dance man. A few of his own songs were successful, such as 'The Day I Played Base Ball,' 'Pretty Peggy,' and 'Is That Mr. Reilly.'" - RBW
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File: Dean057

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