McCarthy's Mare (The Runaway Mare)

DESCRIPTION: "We started for the fair, With spirits light and hearty, Behind McCarhy's mare...." It is a wild cart ride; the seats are hard. The singer's coat is torn and his had lost. Finally all are thrown from the cart
AUTHOR: J. P. Skelly (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1875 (source: Sheet music published by E. H. Harding, New York)
KEYWORDS: horse hardtimes humorous
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 151-152, "McCarty's Mare" (1 text) (p. 129 in the 1919 edition)
ADDITIONAL: _THe International Horseshoer's Magazine_, Volume I, Number 5 (May 1900) (available on Google Books), p. 7, "McCarthy's Mare" (1 text)
Roud #14083
NOTES [35 words]: The sheet music gives the title of this as "The Runaway Mare," but most printings seem to call it "McCarthy's Mare" or "McCarty's Mare." A copy of the original sheet music can be found in the Levy collection. - RBW
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