If I Were a Merry Maid

DESCRIPTION: "If I were a merry maid, Which thank the Lord I'm not, sir, The kind of man I would wed Would be a Number One, sir." The woman describes what she would do were she married to each individual member of an artillery crew
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear)
KEYWORDS: courting sex marriage soldier nonballad
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, pp. 136-137, "If I Were a Merry Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #29427
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Rugby Song" (form, theme)
NOTES [47 words]: "The Rugby Song" ("If I were the marrying kind") and "If I Were a Merry Maid" are clearly versions of the same song, rewritten for particular circumstances; I'd be seriously tempted to lump them. But they have separate Roud numbers, so I'll keep them separate for consistency. - RBW
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File: Hopk136B

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