Maid's Lament (I), The

DESCRIPTION: "I can bake and I can brew, I can cook an Irish stew, Wash a shirt and iron it too, But I must go out on Sunday." Six days she works to maintain a good home, "But I must go out on Sunday." She hopes someday to settle down with her young man
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Hamer)
KEYWORDS: work home oldmaid
FOUND IN: Britain(Engand(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hamer-GarnersGay, p. 28, "The Maid's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #1074
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Must Go Out on Sundays" (theme, lyrics)
NOTES [65 words]: This is pretty clearly a much-worn-down version of "I Must Go Out on Sundays"; the first two verses of the Hamer text are straight out of that nineteenth century song. But the verse form is different, and "I Must Go Out" is much longer. If they didn't have separate Roud numbers, I would lump them, but since they have the different numbers, I have (very hesitantly) kept them separate. - RBW
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File: HaGa028

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