Barrow Boy, The

DESCRIPTION: "Up the apples and pairs and across the Rory O'Moore... All m life I wanted to be a barrer/barrow boy, A barrer boy I've always wanted to be. I ought to have been a barrer boy years ago." Tales of life selling food from a barrow
AUTHOR: Joe Burley, Harry bull, Art Noel, Frank Walsh (source: Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar)
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1910 (source: Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar)
KEYWORDS: food commerce
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar, p. 227, "The Barrer Boy" (1 short text)
Roud #21735
File: PSoS227

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