Star of Sunday's Well, The

DESCRIPTION: The singer loves "That consort fit for Satan, the Star of Sunday's Well." She weighs 15 stone [210 pounds]: "She's blooming and she's bonny with real estate and money." He is rejected in favor of "a grocer's curate"
AUTHOR: W.B. Guiney
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (_The Cork Examiner,_ according to OLochlainn-MoreIrishStreetBallads)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection humorous
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OLochlainn-MoreIrishStreetBallads, pp. 258-259, "The Star of Sunday's Well" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds" [OLochlainn-IrishStreetBallads 64] (tune)
NOTES [5 words]: Sunday's Well is in Cork. - BS
File: OLcM258

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