Gal With a Roguish Eye, The

DESCRIPTION: Singer likes "to promenade the street" seeing pretty girls dressed "more expensive than he men." He tells his ma about one that caught his eye. She tells him to "spark the maid." Her father tosses him into the street.
AUTHOR: Fred Wilson (source: Canteen Songster)
EARLIEST DATE: 1866 (Canteen Songster)
KEYWORDS: courting clothes humorous father mother
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _Canteen Songster_ (Philadelphia: Simpson & Co., 1866 (available on Google Books), pp. 52-53, "The Gal With a Roguish Eye"
Roud #24829
RECORDINGS:
Malvin Dunlap, "Bigfooted Girl" (in BayardCollection, video 28 ("Jesse and Malvin Dunlap #1" starting at 14.04))
File: RcGWtREy

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