Cheer, Boys, Cheer (V -- The Song of the Mangle)

DESCRIPTION: "Cheer, boys, cheer! My mother has a mangle, Cheer, boys, cheer! She fills it with stones... She turns it with the handle, For she mangles all me clothes." Or, "My brother turns the handle... My sister gives out the clothes."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: clothes mother work derivative
FOUND IN: US(MA) Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, p. 236, "The Song of the Mangle" (1 short text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 167, "Cheer Boys Cheer" (2 short texts, 1 tune)
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 87-88, "Cheer, boys, cheer" (1 text)
Roud #13845
NOTES [57 words]: Roud files this along with the "regular" "Cheer, Boys, Cheer (II)," but it is clearly a deliberate rewrite. And at least two versions are known, from two different countries (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania's Pennsylvania version and Brady's and Alice Kane's Irish version), with variations. I'd call that an independent song. - RBW
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