The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49846   Message #3650069
Posted By: Steve Gardham
11-Aug-14 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Subject: RE: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Calico Printer's Clerk
While we're on we might as well put in the correct attribution which is already on several threads particularly those on Harry Clifton. He wrote the words and sang it c1863. The Glasgow Poet's Box printed it in 1865. The music is ascribed to Charles Coote Jr. It was published by Hopwood & Crew, serial H&C 732.

I wouldn't describe it as either Music Hall or broadside ballad. It's a concert or drawing room piece. Clifton strictly speaking wasn't Music Hall although he was just as big as the swells and Lion Comiques. He plied his trade around the country in the more upmarket theatres usually arranged by himself.