The New Christmas Dinner Song
December 16, 2023
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I am grateful to John Foreman, Folk Singer and Printer of the Catnap Press in Camden Town, also known as The Broadsheet King, who kindly sent me his reprint of The New Christmas Dinner Song as originally published by Taylor of Brick Lane in the nineteenth century
John Foreman, The Broadsheet King
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to travel back in time to experience a real Victorian Christmas? I get so immersed in the lives of my ancestors when doing my research, that I imagine that I am with them, taking part in the pantomime and then going home with them. Some lived like the Cratchits with barely two ha’pennies to rub together, but I am sure that they too did what they could to make a feast of Christmas Day. They could have my portion of goose though…….
I was laughing reading this as I was thinking of someone singing the first part to the tune of The Camptown Races lol