Thanks for your comments, Strumelia! Actually, just as you thought, Bob Ridley DID originate in America as a minstrel song, and crossed the pond over to Britain in the nineteenth century minstrel craze. Not all songs travelled westward across the Atlantic!
Thanks for your comments, Strumelia! Actually, just as you thought, Bob Ridley DID originate in America as a minstrel song, and crossed the pond over to Britain in the nineteenth century minstrel craze. Not all songs travelled westward across the Atlantic!
This is very cool! Bob Ridley was a very popular mid-1800s American 'minstrel era' song, as sung here by the Canebrake Minstrels:
I never realized the song was 'imported' to America.
Wonderfully played and sung, John!