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Thread #47505 Message #710581
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
13-May-02 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailor Courted a farmers daughter
It's a parody of the traditional song, the original of which often had convenient to the Isle of Man (though the earlier broadsides have wilds of Kent); "contagious" would be a deliberate "mis"quote here, though I think that at least one traditional set has been found with "contagious" as a genuine mondegreen.