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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 1 : Scottish and English Songs
Folder 18 : Scottish and English Songs - F

Page 00559 : Old Adam [song text] Sam Bennet (contributor)

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Old Adam

Contributor	Sam Bennet
Index Name	Bennett, Sam

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00559

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song

First line

Old Adam was a gentleman, one of the

First line looks like a false start, and following couplet is probably a self-contained rhyme about Adam.

3 lines

Contextual Notes

Jack Kyte, Ilmington, sang forty or fifty years ago, when tight.

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Cylinder Recording

Old Adam was a Gentleman [cylinder recording] Sam Bennett (contributor), Ilmington

Disc Recording

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