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Mary Green - the song from long ago

Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007

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Mary Green

While looking at my Great Uncle Joey McLaughlin's diaries from 1909/1910 I saw the words of a song called Mary Green.

This may have been a well known song at the time - or it may have been written by MicK McLaughlin my Grandfather or perhaps by Joey McLaughlin himself.

Local Girl?

It would be nice to think that it was composed about some local girl - although the chances are it was a common song of the time.

I have to say though that I've scanned the Internet and can't find it so it either hasn't survived or one of the two guys penned it.

Here's the words as they are written in the diary

Mary Green.
once I knew a
simple ('simple' is scored out suggesting either a self composition or a mistake) little Floweret
Simple Mary Green

I say her simple name was Mary Green

She was either shy or fly,
or something in between
I say or shy or something
in between

Chorus

Mary Green brightest
little fairy everseen
Light and airy
graceful as a fairy
Mary Green,
Sweet sixteen
the daisy and the darling
and the queen.
of a Tipperary dairy
Mary Green.

M McLaughlin
Main St
Mov

Then over the page.....

2 verse

She'd a pretty smile
upon the face beneath
her hat. She always
wore her face beneath
her hat, She could
skim the milk and
also make the butter
Pat in Ireland
the call the Butter
Pat When she walked
across the field upon
her dainty feet
She usually walked
upon her feet She
looked a little
Irish Colleen
elegant and neat
there's nothing like
a little Irish
neat.

Chorus

Comments

I wonder what the tune is like.

With the Tipperary reference I would presume it was a common song of the time - although my father has never heard of it.

Did anyone have a Grandmother or Great Grandmother called Mary Green?