Thanks to all for replies on- and off-list. Many interesting
suggestions but not, I think, definitive enough to change what I wrote.
I'm surprised no-one mentioned the double-entendre aspect as in the
Alex Glasgow song "Keep your hand on your ha'penny", based on a
pre-existing proverbial saying (see
[1]http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=38961 if interested).
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Matt Seattle
<[2]theborderpi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
I'm currently putting what I hope are the finishing touches to the
new
edition of Bewick's Pipe Tunes. I've reverted to Robert's "Holy
Halfpenny" title , corroborated by another early local source, rather
than the later "Holey", and written "The significance of either
interpretation is unclear". Is it? Does anyone actually KNOW, rather
than have an interesting theory?
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References
1. http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=38961
2. mailto:theborderpi...@googlemail.com
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