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Thread #22855   Message #1441878
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
23-Mar-05 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: Penguin: Ratcliffe Highway
Subject: RE: Penguin: Ratcliffe Highway
"Radcliffe Highway," at the start of this thread with notes added by Joe Offer, or "Rolling Down Wapping," was also printed as "Change For a Guinea," W. Armstrong, Liverpool, between 1820 and 1824. The only difference from "Rolling Down Wapping" and the verses in Penguin, except for a few minor word changes, is the last line, "You may go to Davy for their change." Bodleian Library, Harding B28(194).

These versions are discussed in "Classic English Folk Songs," the revision by Malcolm Douglas of "The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs,"