Winking at Me

DESCRIPTION: "Kind friends, your attention I'll ask for a while...." "The gents in the house all keep winking at me... I really can't sing while they're winking at me." The singer describes all the people winking at her who should know better
AUTHOR: Words: F. C. Perry / Music by Robert Coote (source: sheet music published by Willey & Co.)
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (Lydia-Thompson-Songster)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad | winking
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Lydia-Thompson-Songster, p. 46, "Winking at Me" (1 text)
Wandering-Refugee-Songster, p. 42, "Winking at Me" (1 text)
Roud #44878
NOTES [58 words]: It appears to me that there are two forms of this, one in which the singer is a performer, female, who is being winked at by the audience; this is the version in the Lydia-Thompson-Songster. The sheet music version seems to involve a girl simply living her life who suffers all the winks. I don't know which is older; I would guess the latter. - RBW
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