Matrimonial Sweets

DESCRIPTION: Man: "Do cease your clack, and hold your tongue, You're always teasing...." Woman: "You're always quarreling all day long." They both say, "'Tis the plague of my life" that they married. They threaten to separate -- and suddenly all is well
AUTHOR: W. H. Freeman (source: sheet music published by C. Bradley, Boston)
EARLIEST DATE: 1859 (source: Connecticut College Digital Commons)
KEYWORDS: husband wife fight
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Old-Clowns-Whoa-January-Songster, pp. 42-43, "Matrimonial Sweets -- Duet" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1407, pp. 95-96, "Matrimonial Sweets" (1 reference)
Roud #37284
NOTES [16 words]: Sort of a nineteenth century "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." Only much more ill-tempered. - RBW
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File: OCWH042

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