Mudcat Café message #1135826

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Posted By: GeoffLawes
13-Mar-04 - 07:27 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Cushie Butterfield
Subject: RE: Cushie Butterfild: author?

According to Michael Kilgarriff's authoritative tome on the British popular song 1860-1920, Sing Us One Of The Old Songs, Cushie Butterfield is by George Ridley and is "Geordie words to Harry Clifton's earlier Polly Perkins".