Mudcat Café message #2226981

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Thread #107409 Message #2226981
Posted By: The Vulgar Boatman
02-Jan-08 - 04:33 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The lad with his trousers on
Subject: RE: Origins: The lad with his trousers on

Same song Jack - and was refined and printed at Seven Dials as a broadsheet between about 1820 and 1840. By that time the tune was still recognisable as a descendant of Cuckoo's Nest. Roy Palmer has it in "Boxing the Compass".