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Thread #148910 Message #3762799
Posted By: Lighter
04-Jan-16 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket
Subject: RE: Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket
The presumed Kentish "Buffer" does not appear in Partridge, the OED, or Google Books, for example.
"Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket" is credited to George J. Whyte-Melville and Charles Coote.
A related, anonymous broadside, called "Tarpaulin Jacket" (beginning "I'm a rambling and roving young fellow") may have supplied the inspiration. It is explicitly a naval song, printed by Pitt between 1819 and 1844.