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Thread #6346   Message #3932723
Posted By: Steve Gardham
22-Jun-18 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Unfortunate Rake
Subject: RE: Help: The Unfortunate Rake
What date is Lloyd supposed to have made up the title 'The Unfortunate Rake'? Laws (Q26) in 1957 states 'is derived from a British broadside called 'The Unfortunate Rake' or 'The Unfortunate Lad'.

Apart from 'The Buck's Elegy' all the broadside copies I have are titled 'TUL' apart from a later issue titled 'The Sailor Cut Down in his Prime' which starts 'One day as I strolled down by the Royal Albion'.
The earlier ones have 'Lock Hospital' and those from later in the century '...……….Hospital'

No St James Infirmary'