I Must And Will Get Married (The Fit)

DESCRIPTION: Mother and daughter are talking. The daughter says, "I must and will get married; I'm in the notion now" (or "...the fit comes on me now"). Mother asks who she will marry; she names the (miller Sam). If he won't agree, she'll find another
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1845 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 11(4262))
KEYWORDS: marriage mother loneliness
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South)) US(Ap,MW,NE,SE)
REFERENCES (9 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "FIT'S COME ON ME NOW, THE"
Williams-Wiltshire-WSRO Gl 57, "Twas on an Easter Morning" (1 text)
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 128, "I Must and I Will Get Married" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-EightyEnglishFolkSongs 53, "I Must And Will Get Married" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-TheCrystalSpring 141, "The Fit's Come On Me Now" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-FolksongsFromMarthasVineyard, pp. 40-41, "The Fit Comes On Me Now" (1 text, 1 tune)
Musick-JAF-TheOldAlbumOf-William-A-Larkin 8, "The Fit Comes On Me Now" (1 text)
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 176-177, "The Fit Comes On Me Now" (1 short text, 1 tune; the text probably is not this, but the description of the song quotes the refrain "I must and will get marred, The fit's upon me now)
Chappell/Wooldridge-OldEnglishPopularMusic II, pp. 27-28, "The Fit's Upon Me Now" (1 tune, the same as the preceding, so probably not related to this song but related to Chappell's text)
Roud #441
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(4262)[some words illegible], "The Fit Comes on me Now" ("It was on Easter Monday, the spring time of the year"), J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 11(264), Harding B 11(1217), "The Fit Comes on me Now"
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(048), "The Tid is on Me Now," James Lindsay (Glasgow), c.1855
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Lolly-Too-Dum" (theme)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Fit Comes On Me Now
NOTES [21 words]: This song is thematically identical to "Lolly-Too-Dum," but the stanza form is different enough that I have separated them. - RBW
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