Bill Beattie

DESCRIPTION: "Bill Beattie is a bachelor who badly needs a wife," so he and "Peter's Pat" visit "Blaney Town" where there is a home for unmarried women. They don't like the options -- either unattractive or not used to farming. The matron tells them to come again
AUTHOR: Tommy McCabe (source: Woods-KindFriendsLendAnEar)
EARLIEST DATE: 2016 (Woods-KindFriendsLendAnEar)
KEYWORDS: courting farming humorous rejection
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Woods-KindFriendsLendAnEar, pp. 108-110, "Bill Beattie" (1 text)
Roud #29514
NOTES [58 words]: This sounds like a story of Australian bachelors visiting the "Female Factory" (for which see "Botany Bay Courtship (The Currency Lasses)"), but apparently it's about a real twentieth century Irishman. I can understand why the real Bill Beattie wasn't too happy about the song, though apparently Bill had been looking for a servant, not a wife. - RBW
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File: WKFL108

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