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The Swapping Song
Folk songs
←Versions ofThe Swapping Song→sister projects: Commons category, Wikidata item
Roud 469, variously titled "The Foolish Boy", "The Swapping Song", "The Bugle Played for Me", "Six Horses", etc.
4535952The Swapping Song
Versions of The Swapping Song include:Illustration by Clara E. Atwood in A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1901)
"The Foolish Boy" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (1895)
"The Ploughboy in Luck" in The Baby's Opera (1900)
"My father he died, but I can't tell you how" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901)
Year: 1850
Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Swapping_Song

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