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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU MARRIED A SOLDIER? AKA and see "American Dwarf (The)," “Dancing of the Rabbits in Honan's Garden (The),” “Frost is All Gone (The),” "Frost is All Over (1) (The)," "Mist of Clonmel," "On a Monday Morning," "Praties are Dug and the Frost is all Over (The),” “What 3ould I do if the Kettle Boiled Over? (1) ,” Irish, Jig and Air. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (only the first part of the “Frost is All Over” jig version).

What would you do if you married a soldier?
What would you do but carry his gun?
What would you do if he died in the army?
What would you do but marry again.


Source for notated version: sung by Mrs. Anastasia Corkery (Co. Cork, 1930's) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; Appendix No. 37, pp. 587-588.

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