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Thread #63774   Message #1039442
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Oct-03 - 02:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The King's Shilling (John Prentice)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: King's Shilling
Kitty has already told us where the song is to be found, though I'm not familiar with John Prentice. Is this is a piece of his own making? I don't have time to go through the whole of Palmer's Rambling Soldier looking for a fragment, but "inspired by" suggests that. Certainly it is none of the above; though they do mostly include the term "king's shilling", as do a good many other, equally unrelated songs, none of them have anything at all like the lines quoted in the question.