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Thread #94598 Message #4061888
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
28-Jun-20 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Foggy Foggy Dew (bachelor)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Foggy Foggy Dew (bachelor)
The song appeared in print for the first time in America in 1927.
Sandburg printed two versions with tunes, and Frank Shay's "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions" has a text (no tune) with the "damn near died" line.