This is a negligible little waltz-song Ives wrote just before or during his freshman year at Yale. He included it in his collection of 114 Songs (1922), no doubt as an example of the kind of occasional song he wrote when he was young.

The song has a nice, lilting waltz melody. Its words (in two literally repeated verses) suggests that it was written for a dance at a wedding festivity, or at least imitates such a song.

In the lyric, at least, Little Annie Rooney dances with her new bridegroom, Joe P. Mooney. Inevitably, Ives quotes the song "Little Annie Rooney" when the putative bride's name is mentioned in the text.

The song poses no difficulty for the player or the singer. The light chromaticism is not at all out of line for a typical "Gay Nineties" popular song.

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