{"id":17852,"date":"2022-11-19T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=17852"},"modified":"2022-11-19T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T07:35:08","slug":"why-dont-you-marry-the-girl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/why-dont-you-marry-the-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t you marry the girl?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First Published<\/td>1896<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Castling and CW Murphy<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN24871<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Marie Kendall<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Hinchliffe, Frank; England: Yorkshire; 1972<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Chorus only (from sheet music cover)\n\nWhy don't you marry the girl? \nDo you want the girl to die?\nYou can see she's mashed upon you\nBy the twinkle in her eye-\nTo do the trick's just seven and six,\nTake the tip from a pal - \nDon't tease the poor little thing\nWhy don't you marry the gal?<\/em>\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ian Russell collected the chorus and some fragments of this song from the singing of Frank Hinchliffe in 1972: Frank had learned the song from his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have not been able to access the full sheet music at this time, but it’s possible to identify the song using the chorus which appears on the sheet music cover held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.It was sung by \u00a0Marie Kendall<\/a>, with words by Harry Castling<\/a> and music by CW Murphy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to be confused with a song of the same title which appeared 30 years earlier in an American publication The Tilt Skirt Songster<\/em> (1867)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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