Worse You Are the More the Ladies Love You, The

DESCRIPTION: "The worse you are the more the ladies love you, The more they want to hang around... It's the bad lads that get the nice girls... don't forget to tell them All the horrible things you do And just like the ivy... All the girls will cling to you."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: courting | worse you are
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 158, "The worse you are the more the ladies love you" (1 text)
Roud #25400
File: KSUC158B

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