It could come from Ireland , MGM. Red headed kids "carrot tops" can get a terrible time here .There's a superstition associated with the mysterious appearance of a red head child when neither the father or mother are redheads that they are born "on the wrong side of the bed". In the music hall song Salonika one woman sings: "Me husbands in Salonika I wonder if he's dead" Another woman replies mockingly: "I wonder if he knows he's got a kid with a foxy head"