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Thread #99060   Message #1969711
Posted By: Charley Noble
16-Feb-07 - 09:07 AM
Thread Name: Origins: they're moving grandpa's grave
Subject: RE: Origins: they're moving grandpa's grave
This ditty definitely goes back to the 1930's, as "They're Moving Father's Grave." It's been collected in such Oak publications as THE PANIC IS ON, published in the 1960's but it appears to me to be a generation or two older. It probably originated in the last phase of the British Music Hall.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble