There Was a Young Couple

DESCRIPTION: A young couple, or three old maids skate "on a cold and frosty morning." The ice is thin and they fall in. Can someone help them out?
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1920s (Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
KEYWORDS: playparty
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 107, "There Was a Young Couple" (3 texts)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Gathering Nuts in May" (tune, per Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
cf. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (tune) and references there
cf. "The Lamentation of a Bad Market" (possible source) and references there
cf. "Three Little Girls A-Skating Went" (theme)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Three Old Maids
NOTES [66 words]: Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame: "In a dance tradition which has turned even 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' into a 'swinging play' it is not surprising to find that the 'Three Old Maids' is based on the nursery rhyme 'Three children sliding on the ice' (which, in turn, derives from a burlesque ballad 'The Lamentation of a Bad Market; or the Drowning of three Children in the Thames', c.1680...." - BS
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File: OpGa107

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