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Thread #61309   Message #3970840
Posted By: Lighter
09-Jan-19 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3)
Apologies. There's a nine-stanza printing of "Tommy Linn" [sic] in "The Distracted Sailor's Garland" of ca1770. Will post shortly.

Nineteenth century British quotations of the song seem to hark back to this version.

I agree that "Tom Boleyn" (Or "Tambolin" or "Tom a'Linn," etc.) is most likely to have been the song mentioned in "The Complaynt."