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Formatsong text
TitleThe Farmer's Curst Wife
ContributorFrank Waters
Index NameWaters, Frank
PlaceSailors' |Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N.Y., USA
Reference Code AFC 1972/001, MS p. 06977

Scope and Content Notes

Genre song - Child ballad - shanty
Alternative titleBlow the Man Down
First lineOn the outskirts of Bristol lived a wicked old dame

10 stanzas
Type NumberChild 278, The Farmer's Curst Wife

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Song TextOld Peggy and the Devil [song text] Frank Waters (contributor), Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N.Y., 1928
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