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Thread #26592   Message #324240
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Oct-00 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: Help: Approx. date needed for song
Subject: RE: Help: Approx. date needed for song
"I'll tell me ma" has been sung all over the place, with all kind of place names, including Dublin and Glasgow. I suppose for a rhyme it'd have to be a city,but there's a fair number of them around, and were in 1771.

You could try getting hold of The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes