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Nick Dow Req:Tink he kicked the farmer's wife/buy his broom (6) RE: Req:Tink he kicked the farmer's wife/buy his broom 26 Jun 25

I never looked at the OP date! The broom reference is confusing in as much as Buy-a-brooms (Prostitutes-Doxies rated lower in the canting crew than streetwalkers) were female and so were the 'Broomdashers' or those who trade in besoms.
This would imply that the words are later than the mid nineteenth century when the cant meaning had decayed. It could be a locally composed song or poem set to music.

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