Beautiful Bill

DESCRIPTION: "Beautiful Bill was a 'dorable beau, Beautiful Bill did worry me so, Sweetest of Wills, my beautiful Bill, My beautiful, beautiful, (beautiful) Bill." Bill courts the lady (but already has a wife and child?)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: love courting beauty family
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Randolph 372, "Beautiful Bill" (2 short texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 302-303, "Baeutiful Bill" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 372A)
Roud #5061
File: R372

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