Mrs. McLaughlin's Party

DESCRIPTION: Everyone prepares for weeks, buying new clothes and patching the old, for Mrs McLaughlin's party. They dance and drink all night until the fiddler falls drunk and they carry him home, and fight on the way.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland)
KEYWORDS: fight dancing drink music party brawl
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland, p. 61, "Mrs. McLaughlin's Party" (1 text)
Roud #18228
RECORDINGS:
Jack Houlihan, "Mother McLaughlin's Party" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
SAME TUNE:
Julia Harding Got Her Hair Bobbed for the Races ("Oh give us the days of our grannies") (by Johnny Burke) (Johnny Burke, _Burke's Christmas Songster 1926_, self-published, 1926 (PDF copy avallable on the Memorial University of Newfoundland web site), [no page number])
NOTES [30 words]: Also see a text and hear an excerpt of "Mother McLaughlin's Party" among Newfoundland songs as sung by Jack Houlihan on the "MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada" site. - BS
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