My Own Pretty Boy- Maggie Mongins (Gal) 2016 REC
[From Song Collector's Collective recorded in 2016, but much older.
R. Matteson 2018]
My Own Pretty Boy- sung by Irish traveller Maggie Mongins from County Galway, c. 2016. Learned from her mother.
"Oh, where were you all day, ah, my own honey boy?
And where were you all day, ah, my pride and joy?
I was fishing, I was hunting, mother dress my bed soon,
I've a pain in my heart, and I want to lie down."
"What had for dinner, ah, my own honey boy?
What had you for dinner,ah, my pride and joy?
I'd a-me poison chicken, mother, dress my bed soon,
I am sick to my heart, and I want to lie down."