“This Very Unhappy Man”

Description

Bachelor decides to marry; he goes to a girl's house in his Sunday best and proposes. Her parents appear, he panics and runs, the dog chases him, he falls over a hornet's nest, and laments, "I can't begin to tell you the half of this very unhappy man."

Notes

Not to be confused with "The Very Unfortunate Man." - PJS

Recordings

  • Margaret MacArthur, "This Very Unhappy Man" (on MMacArthur01)

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1963 (recording, Margaret MacArthur)
Found in: US(NE)