Monday Night

DESCRIPTION: "Monday night, Band of Hope, Tuesday night, pull the rope, Wednesday night a visitor [or, put on your coat]." Then, lines like "I love so-and-so" or "take her to the river ... Give her a kiss and send her back"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Douglas)
KEYWORDS: playparty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond,West)) Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 86, "Monday Night" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 82, "(Monday night the gramophone)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #347, "Monday nght, Band of Hope"; #348, "Monday night -- the gramophone" (2 texts)
Roud #13182
NOTES [132 words]: Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame considers this rhyme descended from "My Nannie, O" via "Sunday Night." The argument, as the Opies recognize, seems tenuous: "This is the present stage of the game's evolution; and although scarcely a trace remains of the original structure, yet the bouncing jollity of the 1680's song somehow survives." All that's left of the link to the nineteenth century stage -- much less to the seventeenth century -- is that it starts with a night and that both have a bonny girl: now, "Monday night, Band of Hope"; then, "Sunday night an' Nancy o!" - BS
It's not absolutely clear to me that Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes's two texts are "the same," but since I don't find any other "gramophone" texts, I'm including it with the "Band of Hope" lyrics to go along with the Roud Index.
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File: OpGa086

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