Micky O'Dowd

DESCRIPTION: "Don't whistle so loud, You naden't be so proud, Many a boy is a father today, And there might have been two of them, Micky O'Dowd"
AUTHOR: Arthur Lennard (1867-1954)? (source: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: father baby music
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 106, "Don't Whistle So Loud" (1 fragment)
Roud #25346
NOTES [61 words]: The attribution to Arthur Lennard is from Fowke, but while Lennard was a well-known stage actor and music hall entertainer (a rather interesting one, since he impersonated a woman so often that he released a picture postcard of him wearing a dress and a woman's hat), he doesn't seem to have had any reputation as a composer. I suspect he merely sang the song. - RBW
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