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Thread #16278   Message #558297
Posted By: IanC
25-Sep-01 - 11:46 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Molly Malone
Subject: RE: Help: History for Molly Malone please
Mary...'s version looks about right. There's nothing in The Bodleian collection and (oddly) there's nothing in Levy, but The British Library catalogue has two entries for 19th Century versions.

"Cockles & Mussels" Song [begins: "Of all merry blades"] Geoghegan, Joseph B 1876.

"Cockles and Mussels" Comic Song. (Written and composed by J. Yorkston, arranged by E. Forman.) Yorkston. James 1884.

Style is much more 19th Century also.

Cheers!
Ian