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Thread #80010   Message #2945110
Posted By: GUEST,Geoff Skeet
14-Jul-10 - 04:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Buttercup Joe - how old is this song?
Subject: RE: Origins: Buttercup Joe - how old is this song?
"Buttercup Joe" can be picked up in a number of places, like Cambbridgeshire and Essex, where I heard it. It seems to be like "Susannah's a funniful man", lots of people know it but they think their family has a monopoly. It may have been done on MusicHall butI think it yo-yoed between musichall and tradition. Some of thw lines quoted above remind me of "Cushy Butterfield". GS