My Ain Fireside

DESCRIPTION: The singer says it is time to go home to a wife he's afraid to face, but a drink and a song will sooth her and they'll go to bed "and I'll cuddle her in my airms ... and crack aboot the joys o' oor ain fireside." Here's to every man that will do the same.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (Greig/Duncan3)
KEYWORDS: sex drink music nonballad wife
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan3 553, "My Ain Fireside" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #6028
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(144b), "My Ain Fireside" ("Come, my lads, let us mount and go"), Muir [John Muir (Glasgow)?], no date
NOTES [79 words]: Apparently broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(239), "My Ain Fireside" ("Come, my lads, let's mount and go"), unknown, no date is this song but I could not download and verify it. - BS
There is a pop song called "My Ain Fireside" which opens "Oh! I hae seen great anes, and sat in great ha's" (e.g. Dime-Song-Book #4, p. 49). Roud files them together, but it lacks the mention of trouble with the wife, so I'd consider it separate although very possibly the inspiration for this song.
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