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a. From Mrs Helena Titus Brown of New York. b. From Miss Emma A. Clinch of New York. Derived, 1820, or a little later, a directly, b indirectly, from the singing of Miss Phœbe Wood, Huntington, Long Island, and perhaps learned from English soldiers there stationed during the Revolutionary war.

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‘Go bring me down my high-heeled shoes,

Made of the Spanish leather,

And I’ll take off my low-heeled shoes,

And away we’ll go together.’

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