Jean Ritchie - Mr McGuire (Roud 4249)
This recording was made by Alan Lomax in 1949. Most of the Lomax recordings are poor quality and absent from YouTube. I plan to remove as much background noise as possible and upload as many as I can. Here is a playlist with my other Jean Ritchie uploads: • Jean Ritchie - Geordie (Child 209, Roud 90)
Here is a link to my main channel, which mostly consists of informative and historical videos about traditional music and features many rare recordings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHYX...
This video will not be monitized. All credit goes to Jean Ritchie, Alan Lomax and whomever currently holds to rights to this music. I uploaded this video because the music needs to be heard.
Oh, me name is McGuire and I'll quickly tell to you
That the girl that I admire, it'll be Katy Donahue
I go to see her on Saturday night as fateful as the day
And every time I go into the house I hear her mother say:
"Oh Johnny, get up from the fire, get up and give the man a seat
Don't you know it's Mr McGuire and he's courting your sister Kate
You know very well he owns a farm a little ways out of town
Will you get up out of there and you take in the air and let Mr McGuire sit down"