Maginnis's Raffle

DESCRIPTION: "Won Saturday night we'd a bit of a fight, I was dressed in me best so genteely." He meets "me ould countryman, Larry McGaffil," who sells him a raffle ticket. Many gather for the raffle, and a fight starts; "it knocked me stone blind at the raffle"
AUTHOR: John F. Poole (source: sheet music); LanigansBallComicSongster
EARLIEST DATE: 1861 (TeddyReganSongster)
KEYWORDS: gambling humorous transportation fight
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
TeddyReganSongster, pp. 69-70, "Maginnis's Raffle" (1 text)
LanigansBallComicSongster, pp. 48-49, "The WIddy McGinness's Raffle" (1 text, tune referenced)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1358, p. 92, "Maginnis's Raffle" (1 reference)
Roud #37638
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Leather Breeches" (tune)
File: TeRe069

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