You Pretty Girls of Michigan

DESCRIPTION: "You pretty girls of Michigan, give ear to what I write, Of sailing on the stormy Lakes, in which we take delight." The sailors work while "Irishmen and the landlubbers" stay home. The singer urges girls to attend to sailors, who live such hard lives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1933 (collected by Walton from Pat Banner and A. E. Baker)
KEYWORDS: sailor courting
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Walton/Grimm-Windjammers-SongsOfTheGreatLakesSailors, pp. 101-103, "You Pretty Girls of Michigan" (1 text, presumably composite, 1 tune)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 409-410, "You Pretty Girls of Michigan" (1 text)
Roud #7921
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of Newfoundland (I)" [Laws K25] (form)
NOTES [14 words]: Roud lumps this with "Michigan Girls," but they look completely unrelated to me. - RBW
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File: WGM101

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