Ally Croaker (Harriett Abrams)

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• (Posted 2022-12-01)  CPDL #71750: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-12-01).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 216 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Ally Croaker
Composer: Harriett Abrams
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicings: SS or TT
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: c.1795
Description: Abrams' harmonization of a traditional song of Irish, or mock-Irish origin.

Original text and translations

English text

There lived a man in Ballenocrazy
Who wanted a wife to make him uneasy;
Long had he sigh'd for dear Ally Croaker,
And thus this gentle youth bespoke her:
"Will you marry me, dear Ally Croaker?"

This artless young man, just come from the scholary,
A novice in love and all its foolery,
Too dull for a wit, too grave for a joker;
And thus this gentle youth bespoke her:
"Will you marry me, dear Ally Croaker?"

To all you young men who are fond of gaming,
Who are spending your money whilst others are saving,
Fortune's a jilt, the de'il may choke her;
A jilt more inconstant than dear Ally Croaker,
O th'inconstant Ally Croaker.