Talk:Willie Winkie (English translation)

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Source:	Copied from w:Wee Willie Winkie, where it is described as "a paraphrased version for English-language readers (from 1844)".
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Notes:	"'Willie Winkie' [...] is found, adjusted for English ears and unacknowledged, in Nursery Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles, dated 1844, and in Rusher's chapbook, The Cries of Banbury and London, which seems to have appeared earlier." —I. Opie and P. Opie (The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 424–5. Note that the ODNR only contains the first verse of this version.
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I've removed the audio file as it appears to be for Baa Baa Black Sheep. It's a fairly similar melody and you could probably fit the words to it but it isn't correct. Mutt Lunker (talk) 14:16, 19 August 2013 (UTC)