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Lighter Origin: Riley's Daughter / Reilly's Daughter (52* d) RE: Origin: Riley's Daughter / Reilly's Daughter 24 Aug 23


I hear "And oh, Lord God, but was she charming!"

More importantly, "played the same tune o'er and over."

Also "doors," which may be "door" unconsciously influenced by "drawers." After all, he's still outside the chamber, and he next mentions "shutting" things.

"Bunch of" is surely wrong. I seem to hear "Dutch," but I can't make much sense of it. Conceivably it's "bolted holes."

Alan Lomax collected a version from Ed Thrasher, of Round Lake, Mich., with a similar chorus, in 1938. In place of Harding's "Eliza Kenwick" it has "Kitty Norey" (from another bawdy song).


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