One Sunday after Mass (Dermot and His Lass)

DESCRIPTION: "One Sunday after mass As Dermot and his lass Through the greenwood did pass, All alone and all alone." He asks for a "póg." She hits him. She asks why she is coy; she calls him rude. "He bribed her with nuts" till she gives him a kiss
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster)
KEYWORDS: love courting rejection food
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 181, "One Sunday after Mass" (1 text)
Roud #24353
File: HMHS181A

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