| Show why jack robinson Is e quick A foxen ferguson of oxford oxford university speaking of tile the old elwe ballads said that mat its as most of the public executions took place in soeufi park or mar where every everybody tody could be ba present the onlookers onlo okera oftentimes s amused by singing ballis ballads giving the entire his t y f th e 0 many of the old od songs r tre are cont ne with the hangman and the tree particularly interesting also was hla hii description of tile the org orita ip of the espres slon elon quicker than you can say jack robinson heard so often in both eug eng land and america Aroc ilca it came he said I 1 from an old ballad about a sall sailor or named jack robinson who returned to england to find hla his old sweetheart married to another the poor sailor vowed that he would roam the seas forever which alch he set out to do almost before his friends realized what he was wag doing they called after him but he had gona gola beaton Ilo stori transcript |
