Mudcat Café message #1040028

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Thread #63833 Message #1040028
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Oct-03 - 08:23 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Knick Knack Patt/ddy Whack -This Old Man
Subject: RE: Origins: Knick Knack Patt/ddy Whack -This Old Man

Interesting. If the 1911 version is similar and can be dug out of MS. then we have a "no later than" date to shoot at. If these pre-Seeger versions are of this song, then it could well be from the British Isles.
Public knowledge of this rhyme blossomed with the 1858 movie.

It does not occur in Kane ed. Fouke, "Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Clildhood."