You can view the sheet music here.

There are oral versions from Ireland (Kennedy book), Gloucestershire, Shropshire (Tommy Suet's Ball) and Derbyshire (Mrs Merry's Ball). I see that the composer was G W Hunt. Do we have any more information on him? Was he British or American? There is a strong resemblance to the Scottish song "The Wedding of McGinnis to his Cross-eyed pet", .written by George Bruce Thomson of New Deer, Aberdeenshire, but I am not sure which song came first.

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