The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166647 Message #4009928
Posted By: Lighter
22-Sep-19 - 11:21 AM
Thread Name: Origins: DOM PEDRO
Subject: RE: Origins: DOM PEDRO
Steady yourselves, buckos.
Before me is a hard copy of Roll and Go (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1924). However, it does not say "First Edition" and the number of the printing is not given.
118pp., + unp. Plates, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Illustrations, and Foreword. The Foreword is dated "November, 1923."
No Maitland.
No "Paddy, Get Back."
No "Hi-derry "chorus.
"Dom Pedro" is set to the "Derry Down" tune.
And if you think this is a pretty tough yarn, a search of "Roll and Go" (1924) on both Google Books and HathiTrust confirms all of the above.
Are your copies British printings, perhaps?
Otherwise, I be blowed!