Poor Little Girls is in "Singing Our History" (Edith Fowkes and Alan Mills), Doubleday Press. "The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs" (Comp. by Edith Fowkes) has all the notes you might need - including dates of collection - in the back. Of course, in that period, there were a lot of political comment songs going around (i.e. "I'll be a Tory, in Upper Canada") back in the good old days when politics were a blood sport. I know "I'll be a Tory" has been recorded, but I don't know by whom. Rick, is / was there a group called Muddy York? If so - it's them.

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