McCarty's Widow

DESCRIPTION: "It's just a year ago today I took to me a wife, And ever since she's proved to be the burden of my life." The woman licked McCarty to death, but now that he is married to her, the singer vows she won't beat him. He hopes to beat her until she behaves
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1922 (Dean-FlyingCloud)
KEYWORDS: marriage fight
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Dean-FlyingCloud, p. 93, "McCarty's Widow" (1 text)
Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, pp. 174-175, "McCarthy's Widow" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, MCWIDOW*
Roud #5490
RECORDINGS:
Gene Silsbee, "McCarthy's Widow" (AFG 4976 A, 1941; in AMMEM)
NOTES [74 words]: Charles MacEvoy's musical production had a song, "The Widow McCarty," reprinted e.g. in Lawlor-BarneyTheGuideSongster, p. 7. In it, the Widow McCarty misses her husband, and has Paddy McManus cut a wooden image of the dead man. McManus then courts and marries her, causing her to set the wooden husband aide. The Roud Index lumps the songs, but they seem to me to be very distinct. I don't see much sign that the MacEvoy song is traditional. - RBW
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