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Thread #25301 Message #1474222
Posted By: GUEST,Puffenkinty
29-Apr-05 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Three Maidens A-Milking Did Go
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Three Maidens A-Milking Did Go

Richard Dyer-Bennet did a version of this song.
In his liner notes he quotes the Harvard
musicologist John Ward who said that the song
came from the so-called "pleasure gardens"
of outer London in the early 1700's.

Sounds like these gardens were swinging
places. Anybody know anything more
about them? Did the song originate there?