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Thread #100972   Message #2055110
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
17-May-07 - 10:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cheapside / George Barnwell / Georgy...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cheapside / George Barnwell / Georgy...
That would depend on somebody knowing what the tune was. So far nobody has volunteered that information.

Since the whole point of the parody was that it was a parody, posting a text with the bulk of the parodic elements removed seems a little odd to me. Cockney dialect no longer pronounces w as v (or vice versa) but surely it is better to provide (presumably for the minority who are unable to read the broadside copy I provided a link to earlier) a faithfully transcribed text about which people can make their own decisions, instead of having those prescribed for them?