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Thread #109494   Message #2289415
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
15-Mar-08 - 09:48 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: A New Song on the Rise of Porter
Subject: RE: A New Song on the Rise of Porter
I can't tell you where you found your text, but a broadside facsimile can be seen at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:

A new song on the rise of porter

Printer and date are unknown. Your text shows signs of oral processing: 'fippence' for 'fivepence', the substitution of 'me' for 'my' (typically a modern affectation, not much used in C19 songsheets except in parody) and so on. Presumably you remember something about the context in which you found the words? Were they a transcription from a print source, or from somebody's singing?