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Robert B. Waltz	Origins: Pink Pajamas (28)	RE: Origins: Pink Pajamas	21 Oct 23
Lighter wrote: There's no text of either song in Harold Bennett's "Bawdy Ballads & Dirty Ditties of the Wartime R.A.F.," which suggests the popularity of "Sir Jasper" postdates WW2. I wouldn't have expected "Pink Pajamas" in a serviceman's anthology -- it really does sound like a camp song -- but I agree about "Sir Jasper." I haven't seen it in any military anthologies, either. The earliest field collection I know of is Ritchie's (James Ritchie, not Jean) The Singing Street, from 1964. I do wonder how long it took to get from an "adult" song to a street song.

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