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Thread #6378   Message #1235084
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
27-Jul-04 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Polly Wolly Doodle
Subject: RE: Who wrote Polly Wolly Doodle
Seven verses and chorus with sheet music are found in "Heart Songs, Dear to the American People," World Syndicate Co., 1909, pp. 436-437. They are the usual ones.
The song doesn't seem to be represented in school songbooks until the 1930s.
I remember Burl Ives sang it, but it is not in his "Burl Ives Songbook," 1953.