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Thread #136586 Message #3119939
Posted By: Joe Offer
23-Mar-11 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: DT Corr: Adam and Eve
Subject: ADD Version: Adam and Eve
I found the song at Google Books in an 1893 songbook called English County Songs, by Lucy Etheldred Broadwood and John Alexander Fuller-Maitland:
ADAM AND EVE
Adam and Eve could never believe
That Peter the miller was dead;
Shut up in the tower for stealing of flour,
And never could get a reprieve,
And never could get a reprieve.*
They bored a hole in Oliver's nose,
And put therein a string,
And drew him round about the town
For murdering Charles our King,
For murdering Charles our King.
*possibly in the original this line ran "and forced to lose his head."
Tune posted on request.