There Was Twa Auld Carles

DESCRIPTION: Two old men and a poor girl [quine] are in bed together. One moved off [jinkit aff], and the other moved in, and they played there.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan8)
KEYWORDS: bawdy nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan8 1722, "There Was Twa Auld Carles" (1 text)
Roud #13140
NOTES [10 words]: Greig/Duncan8: "[This is] from two manuscripts 1730-1760." - BS
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File: GrD81722

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