From Ike Harvey
Transcribed by David Harvey from a handwritten note in pencil by Ike Harvey.
George Frampton, “I don’t know if this is actually a folk song”: The Life and Music of George Spicer (1906-1981), Part 2: The West Langdon Years, 1928-35, Musical Traditions, 2012, https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/g_spice2.htm
Roud 44890
“I have copied this as to spelling and punctuation, more or less as Ike wrote it” – David Harvey.
Steve Gardham has identified this as a version of ‘Paddy Casey’, which appeared in various broadside printings in the 1870s.
See for example the version published by the Poet’s Box (Glasgow), 30th December 1876, at https://archives.vwml.org/songs/RoudBS/B240979
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