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Thread #132301 Message #3132982
Posted By: Jack Campin
11-Apr-11 - 08:41 AM
Thread Name: london folk songs
Subject: RE: london folk songs
Despite the urban legends about it, I don't think there's any evidence to link "Pop Goes the Weasel" to London. It first appeared in America in the mid-19th century.
The Opies' "Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes" doesn't mention it.