“Single Girl, Married Girl”
Description
"Single girl, single girl, go and dress so fine... Married girl, married girl goes ragged all the time...." The lives of single and married women compared: The single girl can go out (and perhaps even spend); the married girl must care for the baby; etc.
Notes
Roud lumps "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again" and "Single Girl, Married Girl" (and perhaps others). Definitely a stretch, though the songs can easily cross-fertilize. - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again"
- cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)"
- cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl"
- cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married"
- cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme)
- cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme)
- cf. "Married and Single Life" (subject)
Recordings
- Carter Family, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (Victor 20937A, 1927; on AAFM3) (Conqueror 8733, 1936; Melotone 7-04-53, 1937)
- Frank Profitt, "Single Girl" [excerpt] (on USWarnerColl01)
- Ruby Vass, "Single Girl" (on LomaxCD1702)
References
- Warner 128, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 87 "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 84, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Single Girl" (1 text)
- DT, SINGLGRL
- Roud #436
- BI, Wa128