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Thread #128449 Message #2879641
Posted By: Bounty Hound
04-Apr-10 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Fourteenth of July
Subject: RE: Origins: The Fourteenth of July
Thanks chaps, but probably not the most helpful suggestions
According to the database here, the song appears in 'Songs of the Peasantry of the Weald of Surrey and Sussex' (1843) so I don't think there would be a Billy the Kid connection, Bastille Day and French revolution might be a possibility, but the song appears to be about an encounter between a single British ship and a single French one.
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