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Thread #9953 Message #4118518
Posted By: Steve Gardham
01-Sep-21 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Rock All Our Babies to Sleep (J Rodgers)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rock All Our Babies to Sleep (J Rodgers)
Joe
There is another thread on this song that has the text of the Bodleian broadside in pigeon German c1880s. The Bodleian reference is Harding B11 (1137). They could do to be merged. Either this version is the likely original or it is a parody of the original. Either way it must be at least 1880s.