Johnny Is Mad

DESCRIPTION: "Johnny is mad and I am glad, And I know what will please him, A (bottle of wine to make him shine/bottle of ink to make him stink/drink), and (Mary Jones) to squeeze him."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad drink love courting
FOUND IN: US(MW,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 119, "(Johnny's mad and I am glad)" (2 texts)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 83, "Johnny's Mad"; p. 107, "Pretty Little Boy" (2 texts)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5, p. 546, "Mary's Mad" (1 short text, 1 tune)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 256, "(Mary's sad, but I am glad)" (1 text)
Roud #7777
NOTES [45 words]: Roud lumps this with "The Devil Is Mad" family, and I'll allow that it might come from the same roots, but this feels sufficiently different to me that I have split them.
The one on p. 107 of Solomon-ZickaryZan feels as if it might be a floating "Weevily Wheat" verse. - RBW
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File: SaKo119A

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