Widow Malone

DESCRIPTION: "Did ye hear of the widow Malone, Ohone? Who lived in the town of Athlone alone?" All the rich men courted her but she was modest and none could see her alone. Lucius O'Brien from Clare boldly kisses her and she agrees to marry.
AUTHOR: Charles Lever (1806-1872)
EARLIEST DATE: 1841 (Lever, _Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon_)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage humorous
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REFERENCES (5 citations):
O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland, p. 62, "Widow Malone" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #2635, p. 178, "Widow Malone" (1 reference)
Dime-Song-Book #9, p. 17, "Widow Malone" (1 text)
New-Comic-Songster, p. 6, "Widow Malone" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, pp. 107-108, "Widow Malone" (1 text)
Roud #15892
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 b.11(114), "Widow Malone", The Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1855; also 2806 c.8(175), Harding B 18(744), "Widow Malone"
LOCSinging, sb40549b, "Widow Malone", H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
NOTES [72 words]: Broadside LOCSinging sb40549b: H. De Marsan dating per Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
Published by Lever in Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon, which Edgar Wallace tells me was published in 1841, and published in the twentieth century in Stevenson's Home Book of Verse and Woods's Treasury of the Familiar. - RBW
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