Mickey Burke

DESCRIPTION: The singer's wife takes in Mickey Burke as a boarder. She and Burke blow the singer's wages on liquor. One night she hits the singer and when he "raised a fist to strike her" they beat him. The singer plans to shoot Burke and put his wife in jail
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA-Leach)
KEYWORDS: marriage violence money drink ordeal wife
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #30139
RECORDINGS:
Paddy Duggan, "Mickey Burke" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
File: ML3MiBur

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