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Item Summary

Formatsong text
TitleThe Jolly Miller
ContributorMrs C. Bodkin
ContributorMrs Taylor
PlaceWentbridge, Pontefract, Yorks
Reference Code AFC 1972/001, MS p. 01024

Scope and Content Notes

Genre song - singing game
First lineThere was a jolly miller who lived by himsel'

1 stanza; 11 lines game description

Contextual Notes

Mrs Taylor (80 years old), Mrs Bodkin's mother, learned the game when a child.


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