Tailor Ban, The

DESCRIPTION: Singer and tailor Ban are drinking buddies often mistaken for one another. They plan "a mad trip to Kilgarvin"; singer will marry Miss Foley but their alikeness will allow them some freedom. But if there's a child "let nobody ask who's the father"
AUTHOR: Sean O Tuama (Johnny Nora Aodha) (source: OCanainn-SongsOfCork)
EARLIEST DATE: 1943 (OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin)
KEYWORDS: marriage disguise drink humorous
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
OCanainn-SongsOfCork, pp. 76-77,123, "The Tailor Ban" (1 text, 1 tune)
OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin 177, "The Tailor Bawn" (1 text)
File: OCan076

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