View source for Annotation:Love Won't You Marry Me?

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|f_annotation='''LOVE WON'T YOU MARRY ME?'''  AKA - "Love Will You Marry Me?" AKA and see "[[Braes of Mar (1) (The)]]," "[[Johnny Will You Marry Me?]]/[[Johnny Won't You Marry Me?]]" "[[Lasses of Donnybrook]]," "[[Lord MacDonald (1)]]," "[[Sir Alexander McDonald's Reel]]," "[[Some Say the Devil's Dead]]." Irish, Highland Fling (cut time). G Major: D Major (Morrison).  Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Morrison: AABB. The melody is perhaps derived from "[[I'm Over Young to Marry Yet (1)]]." The "Love Won't/Will You Marry Me" title comes from various ditties set to the song, often in call-and-response form, such as:
<blockquote>
''Love won't you marry me,''<br>
''Marry me, marry me?''<br>
''Love won't you marry me''<br>
''And keep me from all danger''<br>
<br>
''No I won't marry you,''<br>
''Marry you, marry you;''<br>
''No I won't marry you ''<br>
''Because you are a stranger.''<br>
</blockquote>
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|f_printed_sources=James Morrison ('''How to Play the Globe Accordion Irish Style'''), 1931; No. 30, p. 26. 
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|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1791/]<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l12.htm#Lovwoyom1]<br>
Hear Johnny Moynihan sing the song at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=love+will+you+marry#/tracks/2306]<br>
Hear Packie Dolan's recording at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=love+will+you+marry#/tracks/13560] (2nd tune, following "[[Keel Row (The)]]")<br> 
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