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Thread #60574   Message #969646
Posted By: masato sakurai
20-Jun-03 - 08:59 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Michael Finnegan / Finnigin
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Michael Finnegan / Finnigin
One verse (without music) is found in John Brophy and Eric Partridge, eds., Songs and Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918, 2nd ed. (Eric Partridge Ltd. at the Scholartis Press, 1930, p. 83):
                Michael Finnigan
                   (Chant)

      Poor old Michael Finnigan,
      He grew whiskers on his chinnigan.
      The wind came out,
      And blew them in again,
      And that's the end of poor Michael Finnigan.

Note.--A pre-war folk-song which the soldiers resuscitated and gave a new life much more vigorous than that which it had in its early days.
~Masato