[PW] ? Lizzie Borden Rhyme Dating (Quotation Query #648)

[Bill Davis]

I don't have an answer to that question, but as an aside, I've always like 
the song "Lizzie Borden," which ends:

        But you can't chop your papa up in Massachusetts
        And then get dressed and go out for a walk
        No, you can't chop your papa up in Massachusetts
        Massachusetts is a far cry from New York

Full lyrics here:  http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/lizziebo.htm

Bill Davis









At 11:17 AM 3/6/2008, you wrote:

>I am having trouble finding evidence for the existence of the Lizzie 
>Borden "Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks" rhyme 
>prior to a 1907 hit in Google Books.  Can anyone supply earlier evidence?
>
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