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Bargery Number 621
Music (Given or Suggested) Tune given as 'Bow, Wow, Wow'. There are several tunes of that name but this fits best and was, as the first verse says, "getting very old" by 1824
Printer or Publisher Walston & Mitchell
Author Hudson, Thomas (1791-1844)
Performer Ratner
Latest Date 1824
Evidence for Latest Date Publication date
Source of Text Comic Songs by TH 1824 (London, Walston & Mitchell, 1824) pp3-5
Where Printed London
Roud Not in the Roud Index
Source of Music Calliope or the Musical Miscelleny (London & Edinburgh, C. Elliot and T. Kay, 1788) pp332-333 [National Library of Scotland. Inglis collection of printed music.]
Source Title The Age of New Inventions (Written for, and sung by, Mr. RATNER, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.)
Origin Theatre

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