The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163413 Message #3901752
Posted By: Steve Gardham
25-Jan-18 - 02:58 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Seventeen Come Sunday/Waukrife Mammy
Subject: RE: Origins: Seventeen Come Sunday/Waukrife Mammy
Richie, Have you identified the source of the 'coffee grows' stanza? It's possible it could somehow be related to the 'Big Rock Candy Mountain' family which derive from idealised British>America emigration ballads from the 17thc.