Mary Was a Bad Girl

DESCRIPTION: Mary, a bad girl, says "I won't." A good girl, the singer says "I will." In school she says "I write." Leaving,she says "Hooray." Courting, she says "a boy." She gets engaged, marries, has a baby who dies (boo, hoo). Her husband dies (hooray). She dies.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1985 (Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
KEYWORDS: courting wedding childbirth death playparty
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 71, "Mary Was a Bad Girl" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Nuts in May" (tune, per Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
cf. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (tune) and references there
File: OpGa071

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