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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 00647- 00648 : Old King Cole [song text] Charles Lay (contributor), Millgreen, Bampton, Oxfordshire

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Old King Cole

Contributor

Charles Lay

Place

Millgreen, Bampton, Oxfordshire

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 00647- 00648

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - nursery rhyme or song

First line

Now Old King Cole was a merry old soul

11 stanzas

Contextual Notes

Learned in Bampton 40 years ago; singer in public houses; never saw in print.

'Sent prison for burning hayrick. Says innocent'.

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Cylinder Recording

Old King Cole [cylinder recording] Charles Lay (contributor), Bampton

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The Old King Cole [disc recording] Charles Lay (contributor), Bampton Pub

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