Cookery Maid, The

DESCRIPTION: "There was a young maiden to cooking school went, Even the cookery maid." Her plum puddings serve as rat poison, her griddle cakes are doormats. Finally she tries to make a pie. A burglar breaks in, tries to eat it, and is found dead the next day
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1988 (List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana)
KEYWORDS: cook thief theft death humorous food
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana, pp. 221-223, "The Cookery Maid" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3771
NOTES [39 words]: This sounds like a novelty song from an early hillbilly recording, but I haven't located it. It might even be funny if it weren't so insulting.
Roud for some reason lumps this with "The Bachelor's Lament (II)," but I don't see it. - RBW
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