Paul King

DESCRIPTION: "I've been readin' Rudyard Kipling... 'Pears like Rud was stuck on Gunga Din... But when compared to our Paul King, We can beat him to a frazzle." King has worked everywhere, done everything; he could beat Jack Dempsey. Paul King is great, "sure t'ing"
AUTHOR: William Moriarty (source: Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: humorous derivative fight food work
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 149--151, "Paul King" (1 text)
NOTES [69 words]: Other poems attributed to William Moriarity in Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine include "The Old Chesuncook Road" and "As 'Twuz and as 'Tiz" I have seen no evidence that any of them made it into tradition. This particular item includes quite a few words from Kipling's "Gunga Din," including the next-to-last line "You're a better man than I am." I wonder how many of Moriarty's readers would have caught that. - RBW
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File: EcSM149

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