I'm putting together some memorable songs to make a CD for a close relative (recently bereaved) and would like to include the song "Her Name Is Mary". I do have a version of it in my collection but it is not the usual tune. I believe it was very popular in the Music Hall days. I think it is also sometimes known as "Her Name Was Mary"

If anyone can help please, it would be greatly appreciated.

Audrey

HI Audrey - I think this song goes back to the Parlour Songs, Edwardian era.

I don't know for sure but I have an idea I saw a film when James Cagney was all the rage, many many moons ago, I couldn't have been very old at the time. He could have sung this song

Goes something like this. Does it ring a bell with anyone? Joan

Her name was Mary, Mary, plain as any name can be
And with ........ named Marie

Last line.......Twas a grand old name.

Hi Audrey - just found the words!!!
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Her name was Mary, Mary

Plain as any name can be

But with propriety, society

Some will say Marie

But it was Mary, Mary

Long before the fashion came

For there is something there

That sounds so rare

It's a grand old name.

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Sorry I can't help with the dots though.

Joan

Hi Me again - Apparently this song is from a Musical play - Forty Five minutes from Broadway - Do a Google search for more facts. Joan

Hi Audrey,
Check your email
Regards & Seasons Greetings

Eddie

http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/1060/index.html

is the song that was really popular when I was very young in the early thirties.
words and music are at this website.
Probably not the one you are looking for but a grand old song that was very popular during the depression. My dad used to sing it to us all the time.
Merry Christmas to the Technics Forum.
Bebop

Hello Everyone!

It has been said many times before but I will say it again - "This is indeed the greatest site on the net" I'd like to thank you all for your efforts in helping me with this one but I have a confession to make - when I received an email from Eddie, I realised I had used the wrong Title. The actual tune is called "Mary's a Grand Old Name" I typed this in to my PC and within seconds it showed that the tune is stored in Vol.51 page 139. How stupid can you get? I should have followed the golden rule to check whether I had the correct Title in the first place. Ah well, I guess you could say it's yet another senior moment. Sorry to have troubled you all.

(Joan - this is wanted for my late sister-in-law's Memorium CD. Her name was Mary, so I know you will understand the trauma at the moment. I'll contact you after Christmas).

Thanks again everyone.

Audrey