New Version of John Anderson My Joe

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New Version of John Anderson My Joe

Poet(s)

Skirving, Adam

Credits

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1 6:299, 312, 21 October 1837.

First line

John Anderson, my joe, John

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Notes and attribution research

Published as the seventh in a series called Scottish Comic Songs, Supposed to be Hitherto Unpublished, but here the series is called Scottish Songs, Not Before Published. A note below the poem indicates that the editors believe the song to be written by the son of the honest East-Lothian farmer Skirving, who wrote the ballad usually called Tranent Muir.

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 3507

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

New Version of John Anderson My Joe