Why Can't I Catch a Beau?

DESCRIPTION: "I think it is awful cruel, For a girl to be just fourteen, And never has had a fellow, A beau, of course, I men. Why can't I catch a beau (x2), I know it is long to wait so long." Her parents mistrust her; her mother follows her; at last she finds a beau
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida)
KEYWORDS: courting mother father loneliness
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #72, "Why Can't I Catch a Beau?" (1 text)
Roud #5006
File: Morr072

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