About the Bush, Willy

DESCRIPTION: "Aboot the bush, Willy, aboot the bee-hive, Aboot the bush, Willy, I'll meet thee belyve." "Then to my ten shillings Add you but a groat; I'll go to Newcastle And buy a new coat." The singer describes the prices of clothing
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1812 (Bell)
KEYWORDS: clothes nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Stokoe/Reay-SongsAndBalladsOfNorthernEngland, p. 97, "Aboot the Bush, Willy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #240, pp. 153-154, "(About the bush, Willy)"
DT, BUSHWILI
ADDITIONAL: John Bell, _Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham_. (Newcastle upon Tyne: John Bell, M. Angus & Son, 1812, available on Google Books), p. 240, "Song" (1 text)
Roud #3149
File: StoR097

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