Kitty of Coleraine

DESCRIPTION: "As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping" she sees the singer, stumbles, breaks her pitcher and spills its milk. He comforts her. "She vowed for such pleasure she'd break it again." Soon after not an unbroken pitcher could be found in Coleraine
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1809 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 10(8))
KEYWORDS: sex humorous food
FOUND IN: Ireland US(MA)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland, p. 44, "Kitty of Coleraine" (1 text)
Hayward-UlsterSongsAndBalladsOfTheTownAndCountry, p. 67, "Kitty of Coleraine" (1 text)
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, p. 79, "Kittie of Coleraine" (1 text) (pp. 65-66 in the 1919 edition)
cf. Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan, p. 480, "Kitty of Coleraine" (source notes only)
ADDITIONAL: Colleen Bawn Songster, Robert M. DeWill, 1873 (available in the Robert Winslow Gordon songster collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress online), p. 47, "Kitty of Coleraine" (1 text)
Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), p. 467, "Kitty of Coleraine" (1 text)
Roud #6534
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 10(8), "Kitty of Colerain", Laurie & Whittle (London), 1809; also Firth b.25(262), 2806 c.15(262), 2806 c.17(209), Harding B 28(149), "Kitty of Colerain"; 2806 b.11(176), Firth c.26(216), Harding B 25(1033), Harding B 12(49), "Kitty of Coleraine"; Harding B 28(265), "Kitty of Colerein"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Spotted Cow" (theme)
cf. "Blackberry Grove" (theme)
cf. "Three Maidens to Milking Did Go" (theme)
cf. "Kate of Coleraine" (tune)
SAME TUNE:
Kate of Coleraine (File: HHH684)
NOTES [95 words]: Broadside Bodleian Harding B 10(8) imprint: "Publish'd Apr. 4, 1809, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London. Sung with unbounded applause by John Johnstone, Esq of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, amongst his convivial friends in Ireland." - BS
The editors of Granger's Index to Poetry list this as "wr[ongly] at[tributed] to Charles Dawson Shanley." Hoagland, at least, follows this incorrect attribution (giving Shanley's dates as 1811-1875, which obviously demonstrates why he couldn't have written a song published in 1809), though she admits some doubts. - RBW
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