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Thread #48821   Message #4074198
Posted By: GUEST,Molly Lynn Watt
03-Oct-20 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jenny Jenkins
Subject: RE: Origins: Jenny Jenkins
I learned this song when I was 19 and sang on the green of Old Sturbridge Village with Bill Bonyun. I am now almost 83. It was a courting song that the village researchers found was sung in New England during the period of the Vilkage 1790 to 1840 at that time. A great coquettish rhyming game trying to stump whoever sang the Jenny or Jackie part by rare colors sometimes impossible to rhyme. I was on staff at OSV in the late fifties as was my then husband, music critic, Robert L. Gustafson.