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Thread #34064 Message #1188746
Posted By: Billy Weeks
19-May-04 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Billy Muggins+Rolling Round the World
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Billy Muggins/Rolling Round the World
As always with music hall material, look first in Michael Kilgarriff's monumental catalogue 'Sing Us One of the Old Songs', 1998. 'Billy Muggins, by Charles Ridgwell was sung by Charles Whittle and published by Francis Day and Hunter in 1906. Ridgwell also wrote 'If those lips could only speak' and 'I'mShy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy'.