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Thread #4687 Message #25710
Posted By: Bruce O.
13-Apr-98 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Wagoner's Lad / Waggoner's Lad
Subject: RE: The Waggoner's Lad
"How hard is the fortune of all womenkind" The first verse of the version in DT is from Henry Carey's "The Ladies Case", c 1730. I posted Carey's song on a Women's Songs thread last fall, I think it was.