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Thread #168625 Message #4073463
Posted By: Steve Gardham
28-Sep-20 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Early or pre-music hall song-Vagabond
Subject: RE: Origins: Early or pre-music hall song
Hi, you really need Billy Weekes on this one.
However, there is no song with that specific title in Kilgarriff, but there is at least one song called 'The Vagabond', written in 1871 by Charles Lamb Kenney (1821-81) with music by J L Molloy.
Sir Charles Santley (1834-1922) sang a song of this title as did Nellie Richards of The Haverley Minstrels (1864-1932), but these could easily be 2 different songs.
The only Burley in Kilgarriff is Joe B but his dates are much later c1907-13.