The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127487   Message #3730933
Posted By: Steve Gardham
17-Aug-15 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: lyr/Origins: Pretty polly (Knife in the Window)
Subject: RE: lyr/Origins: Pretty polly (Knife in the Window)
O Lochlainn has this to say 'Sometimes attributed to Samuel Lover (1797-1865 sic.) as he printed it in his novel Rory O More (1837) but is probably an older ballad rewritten. He was a versatile genius, poet, artist, novelist, folk-lorist and antiquarian.....'