Old Maids

DESCRIPTION: "All you that are single and wild in your ways, Come sow your wild oats in your youthful days, And you shall live happy, You shall live happy when you grow old. The day is far spend and the night's coming on So give us your arm and go jogging along...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (JAFL, according to Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty)
KEYWORDS: playparty courting
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty, p. 150, "Old Maids" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #29460
File: Spurg150

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