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<p>Created page with &quot;No. 58. My Boy Willie A Yorkshire version of the words is given by Halliwell in his &#039;&#039;Popular Rhymes&#039;&#039; (p. 328); and a Scottish variant in Herd’s &#039;&#039;Scottish Songs&#039;&#039; (volume...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>No. 58. My Boy Willie<br /> <br /> A Yorkshire version of the words is given by Halliwell in his &#039;&#039;Popular Rhymes&#039;&#039; (p. 328); and a Scottish variant in Herd’s &#039;&#039;Scottish Songs&#039;&#039; (volume ii, p. 1). See also Baring-Gould’s &#039;&#039;A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes&#039;&#039; (No. 24).<br /> <br /> The song, I imagine, is a comic derivative, or burlesque, of “Lord Rendal.”</div>

Lewis Jones