[PW] ? Old song "Playmate"

[Bill Davis]

The sites below would seem to indicate that "Playmate" is one variation of 
an older song written in 1894 by Phillip Wingate and H. W. Petrie, known 
variously as "Two Little Sisters," "Playmate," or "I Don't Want to Play in 
Your Yard."

         http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=62899

         http://ingeb.org/songs/idontwan.html

I recall the refrain "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard," being sung by one 
of the elderly "witnesses" in the movie REDS, and over the credits in a 
video of the stage revival of "Mornings At Seven" with Maureen O'Sullivan 
in the 1980's,

Bill Davis





At 03:11 PM 5/9/2008, you wrote:

>"Playmate come out and play with me, and bring your dollies three, climb
>up my apple tree . . ."
>My staff and I were singing this and I got to wondering, how old is this
>song?
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