MJ......Just to add, words and music for Sweet Rosie O'Grady are by Maude Nugent. My song sheet says:

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"A BIT of musical lavender that blossoms perennially from its Bowery roots is 'Sweet Rosie O'Grady'," says Douglas Gilbert. The writing of this simple sentimental ballad is credited to Maude Nugent. Certainly it was she who sand it to success at Tony Pastor's in 1896.
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.....Tiger