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GUEST,John Middleton	There's a man going round taking names (50)	RE: There's a man going round taking names	06 Sep 21
The earliest writen versions of the song were about 1926 and I suggest that people were singing it some years before that. The Spanish flu epidemic had occurred in 1918-1920 and a lot of people died it is probably inspired by the loss of family during that epidemic.

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