Tom Noddy's Lament (International) assertion single work   poetry   "I cannot eat the old horse"
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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 Tom Noddy's Lament
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Notes

  • Air: 'I Canot Sing the Old Songs'
  • At head of poem in Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors, collected and annotated by Walter Hamilton (1887): 'Written during the agitation in Paris in favor of eating horse flesh.' (p. 25)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Reproduced from London Punch, 29 February 1868.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australasian vol. 4 no. 110 (New Series) 9 May 1868 7928835 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 583
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