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 Man

The Clancy Brothers – An Old Man Came Courting

Pat McNamara – Never Wed an Old Man

Sam Larner - Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man

Danny Brazil – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Peggy Seeger – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Killy Country – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Ashley Hutchings – Black Joke

Jeanie Robertson – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Alex Beaton – Maids When You're Young

Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison – Never Wed an Old Man

Alan Mills and Jean Carignan – The Foolish Old Man

Edna Ritchie – An Old Man Came Courting Me

Frank & James McCravy – Get Away, Old Man, Get Away

Joni Mitchell – Maids When You’re Young Never Wed an Old Man

Paul Gwynne Phillips – An Old Man Came A-Courting

Jon Kennedy – Never Wed an Old Man

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