Oh, Jenny Brown She Baked My Bread

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, Jenny Brown she baked my bread, And you bet she baked it well. She baked it hard as anything, She baked it hard as... Hallelujah! Keep your seats for I'm not swearing... Hallelujah! And the truth I always tell"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: wordplay food humorous
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 112, "Oh, Jenny Brown she baked my bread" (1 text)
Roud #25523
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Hallelujah" (technique, lyrics)
cf. "Johnny Fell Down in the Bucket" (technique)
cf. "Hopalong Peter" (technique)
cf. "Teasing Songs" (technique)
cf. "Old Zip Coon (II)" (technique)
cf. "Old Lady of Amsterdam" (technique)
NOTES [36 words]: The form of this is so close to "Halleluhah" that I would probably have lumped them. But Roud splits them, and given that that is seemingly a political piece, there is probably a deliberate rewrite along the way. - RBW
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