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Thread #165486   Message #3970120
Posted By: Lighter
06-Jan-19 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jenny Wren Bride
Subject: RE: Origins: Jenny Wren Bride
There is also a "Willow Wren Bride," reported (without a text) by John R. Baldwin in Folk Music Journal, 1969. (He collected it in 1966.)

Willow Wren is a firm that rents "narrowboats" for pleasure trips on English canals.

Ian Hendrie on other thread (2008):


I met a bloke walking through Bedworth
He said I could laugh 'til I cried
I've been and got shot of me mate on the cut
And he's married a Willow Wren bride
Married, married
He's married a Willow Wren bride