Mary Ann, She's After Me

DESCRIPTION: The callow young man has "never thought much about females," but now Mary Ann is eying him: "Mary Ann she's after me...." "Father says, if that be true, John my lad, be thankful do, That there's one bigger fool in the world than you And that's Mary Ann."
AUTHOR: Fred Leigh (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1911 (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
KEYWORDS: love courting mother father humorous | youth
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FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Mary Ann, She's after me"
Roud #5391
NOTES [39 words]: Very rare in tradition, but there are a number of revival recordings. FolkSongAndMusicHall notes that it "has been enthusiastically taken up by the very folks it was parodying." Certainly it seems to exemplify country bumpkinhood. - RBW
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