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Thread #8460   Message #939626
Posted By: GUEST,Glyn Davies
24-Apr-03 - 08:50 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo
Subject: RE: Good Ship Kangaroo?
Plus of course: "Work Boys Work (And Be Contented)", "Up With The Lark In The Morning (Merry And Wise)", "I Am One Of The Olden Time (Fifty Years Ago)", "Bear It Like A Man", "My Rattling Mare And I", "It's Better To Laugh Than To Cry (or, Careless Joe)" which features a coloured lithograph on the front cover, and "The Way To Be Happy".

Most of these seem to have been published by Hopwood & Crew of 42 New Bond Street, London, including the version of the song I've got which is called "On Board Of The Kangaroo". They all retailed at 3 shillings, but the only dated copy I have (which is of the Musical Million re-issue of "Silent The Shadows Fall, a vocal serenade by N S Gilbert"), is 1898 and that's hand-written on the cover.

Does anyone have any idea of the chronology of these songs? I'd be interested to hear any information.