Rugby Song, The

DESCRIPTION: "If I were the marrying kind, Which thank the Lord I'm not, sir, For the rest of my life I'd...." A formula song in which the singer -- were she of a mind to marry -- asserts that the kind of man she would wed would play various positions on a rugby team
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Green, Rugby Songs); known to have been sung in World War II
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous marriage sports
FOUND IN: Australia Canada US(MW,SW) New Zealand
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Cray-EroticMuse, pp. 365-368, "The Rugby Song" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, pp. 120-122, "If I Were the Marrying Kind" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Albert Smith and Ian Smith, _Mosquito Pathfinder_, 2003 republished as Lewis Brandon, Albert Smith, Ian Smith, _Night Flyer/Mosquito Pathfinder: Night Operations in World War II_, Stackpole Military History Series, 2011, p. 267, "(If I was the marrying kind)" (1 short text)
Roud #10142
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "If I Were a Merry Maid" (form, theme)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
If I Were the Marrying Kind
NOTES [47 words]: "The Rugby Song" ("If I were the marrying kind") and "If I Were a Merry Maid" are clearly versions of the same song, rewritten for particular circumstances; I'd be seriously tempted to lump them. But they have separate Roud numbers, so I'll keep them separate for consistency. - RBW
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File: EM365

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