He's the Man for Me
DESCRIPTION: Singer plans to go to the mining areas, marry a rich senorita, wear fine clothes, and live without working. If necessary, he will divorce her and, although morally opposed to it, live by stealing
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1858 (Put's Golden Songster)
KEYWORDS: marriage theft clothes nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SW)
RECORDINGS:
Logan English, "He's the Man for Me" (on LEnglish02)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Rosin the Beau" (tune)
NOTES [9 words]: Pity we don't have keywords "laziness" and "loafing." - PJS
File: RcHtMfM
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