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Thread #44888   Message #4147800
Posted By: GUEST,John Moulden
19-Jul-22 - 07:32 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Old Orange Flute
Subject: RE: Origins: The Old Orange Flute
As has been suggested above, this is most likely a satirical song. As far as I can gather its earliest appearance was in The Bohemian Songster published around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries in Dublin by the Nugent company. A shortening of that source to "Nugent Bohem" seems to have led in some publications, especially by Waltons of Dublin to an attribution of authorship, which has set many a one off on a sleeveless errand through Street Directories and Almanacks!