“Bowling Green”
Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1947 (recording, Cousin Emmy)
Found in: US
Description
"Wish I was in Bowling Green sittin' in a chair, One arm 'round my pretty little miss, the other 'round my dear." The singer offers to let her man go, wishes she were a bumblebee who could settle on her man, and sets out to ramble because she has no home
Cross references
- cf. "Mary from Dungloe" (floating verse)
Recordings
- Cousin Emmy [Cynthia May Carver], "I Wish I Was in Bowling Green" (Decca 24214, 1947)
References
- Silber-FSWB, p. 43, "Bowling Green" (1 text)
- Green-Miner, p. 230, "Bowling Green" or "Shady Grove" (1 fragmentary text)
- DT, BOWLGREN*
- BI, FSWB043
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