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Thread #27724 Message #3335325
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
08-Apr-12 - 08:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Down the Dark Alley / Down the Back Alley
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down the Dark Alley
Bob, there are five full stanzas in Conrad Aiken's novel "Blue Voyage" (1927).
Eleven presumably bowdlerized stanzas, plus a tune, are in Lt. F. T. Nettleingham's collection of British army songs, "Tommy's Tunes" (1917).