Biddy You Are So Handsome

DESCRIPTION: The singer meets Biddy Small at a Donegal fair. The chorus says "if you'd only marry me sure I wouldn't care at all Should there never grow a potato in the town of Donegal." They marry happily, with a farm, animals and "lots of little children around"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Greig/Duncan4)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage farming Ireland animal children
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan4 744, "Biddy You Are So Handsome" (1 text)
Roud #6174
File: GrD4744

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