Charming Little Girl (Ephraim Brown; Walter Clements)

DESCRIPTION: "My name is (Ephraim Brown), a farmer, near Plymouth I reside." He hopes to marry a girl, but the two cows he has given her father are enough; the father wants another. Then he kisses her after she had eaten onions, and declares he wants her no more
AUTHOR: Joe Scott
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Ives-Joe-Scott-TheWoodsmanSongmaker)
KEYWORDS: love courting father rejection food commerce humorous
FOUND IN: US(NE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ives-Joe-Scott-TheWoodsmanSongmaker, pp. 320-321, "(no title)"; pp. 322-323, "Charming Little Girl" (2 texts)
File: ISco320

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