This Very Unhappy Man

DESCRIPTION: Bachelor decides to marry; he goes to a girl's house in his Sunday best and proposes. Her parents appear, he panics and runs, the dog chases him, he falls over a hornet's nest, and laments, "I can't begin to tell you the half of this very unhappy man."
AUTHOR: Walter Kittredge (1834-1905)
EARLIEST DATE: 1882 (Walter Kittredge's Original Song Book)
KEYWORDS: courting humorous father mother
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: George Calvin Carter (with a Foreword by Hugh Gregg), _Walter Kittredge: Minstrel of the Merrimack_, (no publisher listed but printed in Manchester, New Hampshire), 1953, pp. 66-68, "The Unhappy Man" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Margaret MacArthur, "This Very Unhappy Man" (on MMacArthur01)
NOTES [31 words]: Not to be confused with "The Very Unfortunate Man." - PJS
For background on author Walter Kittredge, see the notes to "Tenting Tonight," his only song to achieve any non-local success. - RBW
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