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Thread #153114   Message #3583874
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-Dec-13 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'your misfortune'
Subject: RE: Origins: 'your misfortune'
The song is a parody on the late 18th and 19th C song, "The Happy Stranger," several broadsheets in the Bodleian Collection.
In that some, misfortune is mentioned, but not in the form "It's your misfortune..."