"scurril Ditties: scurrilous street ballads, often rapidly composed about crimes and other sensational news events and sold as cheap broadsides."

-- #ElizaHaywood, The British Recluse (note 13)

#quote #scurril #Ditties #scurrilDities #18thcentury

#Eclectic tastes continue in this #Thread today.

I knew this song by heart before I was 10 years old.
#BillyMurray & I go way back

♪ Jimmy was a soldier brave & bold
Katy was a maid with hair of gold ♪

♫ K-K-K-Katy ♫ #NowPlaying #NSR Billy Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAAkrI-aaOE 1918
#Wartime #Ditties #Katy #Lovers

#NFO "K-K-K-Katy" is a World War I-era song written by 🇨🇦 /🇺🇸 composer Geoffrey O'Hara. The story of stuttering Jimmy and his girl Katy, with wartime storylines.

K-K-K-Katy - Billy Murray (1918)

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