This episode looks at the ballad Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man aka An Old Man Came Courting Me aka Never Wed an Old Man aka The Foolish Old Man.

Tracklist

The Dubliners – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old ManThe Clancy Brothers – An Old Man Came CourtingPat McNamara – Never Wed an Old ManSam Larner - Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old ManDanny Brazil – An Old Man Came Courting MePeggy Seeger – An Old Man Came Courting MeKilly Country – An Old Man Came Courting MeAshley Hutchings – Black JokeJeanie Robertson – An Old Man Came Courting MeAlex Beaton – Maids When You're YoungAlasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison – Never Wed an Old ManAlan Mills and Jean Carignan – The Foolish Old ManEdna Ritchie – An Old Man Came Courting MeFrank & James McCravy – Get Away, Old Man, Get AwayJoni Mitchell – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old ManPaul Gwynne Phillips – An Old Man Came A-CourtingJon Kennedy – Never Wed an Old Man

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