Royal WIld Beast Show, The

DESCRIPTION: "Come, stand aside, good people... Then pay your sixpences and see the Royal Wild Beast Show." "That pretty thing's the oozley bird, the other one's his aunt, The third we call the pelican, the next the pelicant" and other animal word play
AUTHOR: Alfred Lee (source: Clowns-Shoo-Fly-Songster)
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (Clowns-Shoo-Fly-Songster)
KEYWORDS: humorous wordplay animal nonballad | zoo menagerie show
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Clowns-Shoo-Fly-Songster, pp. 16-17, "The Royal WIld Beast Show" (1 text, 1 tune)
Old-Clowns-Whoa-January-Songster, pp. 16-17, "The Royal Wild Beast Show" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V57126
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The WIld West Show" (theme) and references there
NOTES [46 words]: I have no evidence that this song is traditional; it seems to exist only in a series of songsters from about 1870-1880. I include it here to facilitate comparison to "The Wild West Show." One wonders if this was suggested by that, but cleaned up to make it safer to publish. - RBW
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File: CSFS016

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