Colly, My Cow

DESCRIPTION: "A story, a sad one, I'll tell you just now, It's all about selling of Colly, my cow," which "will give no more milk to me now." Tom Tinker doesn't want her. The tanner bids three shillings and wins the cow.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (Halliwell); Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd claim to have seen a version from 1686 or earlier
KEYWORDS: cattle commerce | cow milk tanner
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #104, "Colly, My Cow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 88, "Oh Colly, My Cow" (1 text)
Roud #6914
File: SCCR088

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