Sweet Scented Barber, The

DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing of a feller that live in the city" -- a perfumed barber. Miss O'Brien casts her eyes on him. Sam Snider the butcher grows jealous. The barber kills him with a lathering brush. She kills herself with brandy. He swallows hair dye and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Huntington-FolksongsFromMarthasVineyard)
KEYWORDS: love courting hair suicide humorous fight drink
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Huntington-FolksongsFromMarthasVineyard, pp. 44-46, "The Sweet Scented Barber" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11624
NOTES [30 words]: Huntington suspects that this is a music hall song, and I think he's right that it has a music hall song in its ancestry, but I also suspect it is a parody of something else. - RBW
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