{"id":6901,"date":"2020-11-13T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=6901"},"modified":"2020-11-14T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:30:59","slug":"maggie-murphys-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/maggie-murphys-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Murphy’s Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First Published<\/td>1890<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harrigan \/ Braham<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN5208<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Jenny Hill<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
unknown c1885 USA : New England
Clark, LaRena 1966 Canada
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MAGGIE MURPHY'S HOME.\nSung by Miss Jennie Hill\n(Music Hall Songster 1892)\n\nJust down a quiet turning, in a modest tenement,\nI live with my old mother, and always pay the rent.\nOurs is no gilded mansion, with grand and lofty dome\nBut you're welcome every evening at Maggie Murphy's home.\n\nOn Sunday night 'tis my delight and pleasure, don't you see,\nMeeting all the girls and and all the boys who go to work with me.\nSo they wander in quite freely, went for a stroll they roam,\nFor her friends are ever welcome, at Maggie Murphy's home\n<\/em>\nWe're dancing in the parlor, there's a waltz for you and I;\nSuch mashing in the corner, and kisses on the sly.\nOh, bless the leisure moments, we glean such pleasure from,\nWhen in friendship met together at Maggie Murphy's home.\n\nIt's from the open window, at the noontime of the day,\nYou'll see the neighbors' children so happy at their play.\nThere's Jim little Nelly, together romp and roam.\nWith the others in the playground near Maggie Murphy's home.\n\nI walk straight home from business at the closing of the day,\nTo greet my dear old mother; you'll hear the neighbors say:\n\"Oh! there goes little Maggie, I wish she were my own;\nOn, may blessings ever linger o'er Maggie Murphy's home!\"<\/strong>\n\n\nMAGGIE MURPHY'S HOME.<\/strong>\nAs sung in Edward Harrigan's new play entitled \"Reilly and the 400\"\nWords by Edward Harrigan. Music by Dave Braham.\n\nBehind a grammar schoolhouse, in a double tenement,\nI live with my old mother, and always pay the rent.\nA bedroom and a parlor is all we call our own.\nAnd you're welcome every evening at Maggie Murphy's home.\n\nOn Sunday night 'tis my delight and pleasure, don't you see,\nMeeting all the girls and and the boys that work down town with me.\nThere's an organ in the parlor to give the house a tone,\nAnd you're welcome every evening at Maggie Murphy's home.<\/em>\n\nSuch dancing in the parlor, there's a waltz for you and I;\nSuch mashing in the Corner, and kisses on the sly.\nOh, blessed leisure hour! that working-people own,\nAnd they're welcome every evening at Maggie Murphy's home.\n\nIt's from the open window, at the noontime of the day,\nYou'll see the neighbors' children so happy at their play.\nThere's Jimmy with his Nelly, together romp and roam.\nAnd they gather in the school-yard near Maggie Murphy's home.\n\nI walk through Hogan's alley at the closing of the day,\nTo greet my dear old mother; you'll hear the neighbors say:\n\"Oh! there goes little Maggie, I wish she were my own;\nOn, may blessings ever linger o'er Maggie Murphy's home!\"<\/strong>\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A song by Ned Harrigan(1845-1911) – an extremely successful Irish-American actor, playwright and lyricist.  Jenny Hill<\/a> (1850-96, aka The Vital Spark<\/em>) imported the song and modified the words slightly to better suit her own audience. It was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic, sung both from the stage and in the respectable parlours of the middle classes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
It was a big hit in the 1920s for barbershop singers, the Shannon Quartet – and it remains popular amongst some Irish Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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