Please can anyone help me on this one?
Reading 'My Great and Only' in "Abaft the Funnel"
(source given in the Dodge edition as Turnovers IX) I
found that it contains four verses of a musical-hall
song "That's what the girl told the soldier" which I
thought I recognised. I have now tracked this other
verse down to 'Love-O'-Women' in "Soldiers Three".
The strange thing is that I can't find it in the
complete poems (I am using the Wordsworth Poetry
Library edition), nor by on-line search at Edward
Bonver's site. I don't have a copy of Andrew
Rutherford's early verse so can't check that.
Google has turned up one reference to a British
recording in April 1905 of "O That's what the girl
told the soldier" on an EDISON-2 min cylinder number
13267 which credits Florrie Forde (as singer) and
Harry Castling as composer, but has no reference to
RK.
And so, does anyone know the correct title of the poem
under which it would appear in RK's works, or was RK
quoting someone else's song on these two occasions?
With best regards
David Page
Harrow UK
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