Sold Again and Got the Tin

DESCRIPTION: "Sold again and got the tin And a little box to put it in."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MidwestFolklore), but see NOTES
KEYWORDS: money commerce
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 260, "(Sold agin and got the tin)" (1 short text)
NOTES [83 words]: In trying to figure out if this is a fragment of anything else, I turned up a 1922 book by Herbert Quick, Vandemark's Folly (available on Project Gutenberg). It at least four times quotes this lyric:
Sold again
And got the tin,
And sucked another Dutchman in!
According to Chapter VI, "I Become Cow Vandemark," the first paragraph, this was in use in 1855. I don't trust that date, and I don't know which form came earlier, but there is probably some interesting history behind this somewhere. - RBW
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