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Thread #34875 Message #472882
Posted By: GUEST,MJ
30-May-01 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Lovely Molly (from Jeannie Robertson)
Subject: RE: Help: Lovely Molly - provenance?
For what its worth "mavis" is a Scottish word, unlikely to be in an Irish song, but on the other hand you don't get nightingales in Scotland.