Miss Bridget Adair

DESCRIPTION: Bridget Adair is a forty year old spinster. One morning a man comes to her door and said "Miss Bridget, I die for you." She likes his demeanour. Then he gives her silks she had sent him to dye "a beautiful mazarine blue." She cries with disappointment.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Hayward-UlsterSongsAndBalladsOfTheTownAndCountry)
KEYWORDS: oldmaid
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hayward-UlsterSongsAndBalladsOfTheTownAndCountry, pp. 74-75, "Miss Bridget Adair" (1 text)
Roud #6536
NOTES [47 words]: The Albert Memorial, cited in the song ["It was just as the Albert Memorial struck nine, And Miss Bridget was just out of bed"], was completed 1876 (source: The Victorian Web site). That puts an earliest possible date on the Hayward-UlsterSongsAndBalladsOfTheTownAndCountry version. - BS
File: HayU074

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