Molly Brooks (I)

DESCRIPTION: "Molly Brooks has gone to the isle (x3), And I hope she'll never return (x3), Molly Brooks has gone to the isle, And I hope she'll never return."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Wolford-ThePlayPartyInIndiana)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad travel
FOUND IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Wolford-ThePlayPartyInIndiana, p. 71=Wolford/Richmond/Tillson-PlayPartyInIndiana, pp. 194-195, "Molly Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune)
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, pp. 78-79, "Molly Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 529, "Molly Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty, p. 139, "Molly Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-SongsTheWhalemenSang, p. 274, "Moll Brooks" (1 text, 1 tune -- a fragment which is placed here by the manuscript title; Roud [#2075] files it with "I Lost My Love and I Dinna Ken Hoo," though it has really only one line in common)
Roud #7642
NOTES [49 words]: This probably springs from the same roots as Molly Brooks (II), a dance to the tune of "Malbrouk." Since, however, Randolph's version has lost the tune (which in this case is diagnostic), and Wolford-ThePlayPartyInIndiana appears to have a different tune, I have classified them separately. - RBW
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