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Old 04-24-2006, 03:54 PM   #16
johnfowles
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Originally posted by charlene:

Yep John- Valdy said Lightfoot wrote the music for the Piddlin' Pete poem and he said it was a Robert Service poem...not sure about that part but he did say it was Lightfoot music.
It's a very entertaining song!
lol
I see that
"Robert William Service was born on January 16, 1874 to a Scottish bank clerk and the daughter of an English factory owner."
In googling for a link I found that you Char have previously discussed the provenance of the piddling pup/Pete as told by Valdy on an old 2003 topic at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001347.html\
Basically you reported that there was some doubt if RWS actually wrote it
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