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'''"Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green"''' is the title of an [[England|English]] song, composed by the London [[music hall]] and broadside songwriter [[Harry Clifton (singer)|Harry Clifton]] (1832–1872),<ref>[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection/kbarkerarchive.html The Kathleen Barker Collection] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519165529/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection/kbarkerarchive.html |date=19 May 2014 )), University of Bristol Theatre Collection, by Christopher Robinson, Published in Scenes from Provincial Stages: Essays in Honour of Kathleen Barker ed. Richard Foulkes (The Society for Theatre Research, 1994)</ref> and first published in 1864. It is catalogued as [[Roud Folk Song Index]] No. 430.

It was originally published under the title '''Polly Perkins of Paddington Green''' or the '''Broken Hearted Milkman'''.<ref>Original music score 1864</ref>

==History==
It was almost universally known in England until around the mid-1950s, when it began to fade as being too old-fashioned. The title refers to the district of [[Paddington]] in [[London]]. The song gained a place in the canonical ''Oxford Book of Comic Verse'', and the original manuscript of "Polly" is now held in the [[Bodleian Library]].

It was adapted for the USA by Clifton during the [[American Civil War]], retitled "Polly Perkins of Abington Green". Presumably the new title referred to [[Abington Green, Georgia]], in the United States. It was also published fairly early in its existence as "Pretty Polly Perkins of Pemberton Green".

Most of Clifton's songs adapted their tunes from old folk songs<ref>[http://www.hissboo.co.uk/article1.html Let me make a nation's songs, and let who will make their laws], [[Roy Hudd]], The Hiss and Boo Company, retrieved 19 May 2014</ref> and it is possible that a folk tune is also the origin of the tune for Polly—some see a resemblance to "Nightingales Sing", also known as "The Bold Grenadier". The famous Tyneside Music Hall song ''[[Cushie Butterfield]]'' (sung even today at Newcastle United matches) is sung to the same tune as "Polly" and is a parody of "Polly". Cushie Butterfield is attributed to the great Geordie comic singer George Ridley, who died in 1864; "Cushie" was first published in book form in the 1873 edition of "Allan's Tyneside Songs".  Clifton's death date means that both the song and its tune are now firmly in the [[public domain]].

The tune, with new lyrics, found its way into the Australian bush culture, among outback farmers and sheep shearers, in the song "One of the Has-beens".

In the British [[Royal Navy]], and in the [[Royal Australian Navy]], sailors with a surname of Perkins are traditionally given the nickname of 'Polly'.

The chorus of the song is sung by the feverish Sergeant Maxfield in the 1964 film ''[[Zulu (1964 film)]]''.

The chorus of the song is also sung by Perks the station porter in the 1970 film ''[[The Railway Children (1970 film)|The Railway Children]]''.

The name Polly Perkins is that of the heroine in the movie ''[[Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow]]''.

In [[John Mortimer]]'s ''[[A Voyage Round My Father]]'', it is the favourite song of the narrator's father, who sings snatches of it on the most inappropriate occasions.

==Lyrics==
((col-begin))
((col-break))
I am a broken-hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed<br>
Through keeping of the company of a young servant maid<br>
Who lived on board and wages, the house to keep clean<br>
In a gentleman's family near Paddington Green

She was as beautiful as a butterfly and proud as a Queen<br>
Was pretty little Polly Perkins of Paddington Green

She'd an ankle like an antelope and a step like a deer<br>	
A voice like a blackbird, so mellow and clear<br> 
Her hair hung in ringlets so beautiful and long<br>
I thought that she loved me but I found I was wrong

''[Alternative and possibly original/earlier lyrics to second verse]''<br>
Her eyes were as black as the pips of a pear<br>
No rose in the garden with her cheeks could compare<br> 
Her hair hung in ringlets so beautiful and long<br>
I thought that she loved me but I found I was wrong

Refrain

When I'd rattle in the morning and cry "Milk below"<br>
At the sound of my milk cans her face she did show<br>
With a smile upon her countenance and a laugh in her eye<br>
If I'd thought that she loved me I'd have laid down to die

Refrain<br>
((col-break))

When I asked her to marry me, she said "Oh what stuff"<br>
And told me to stop it for she'd had quite enough<br>
Of my nonsense... At the same time, I'd been very kind<br>
But to marry a milkman she didn't feel inclined

Refrain

"The man that has me must have silver and gold<br>
A chariot to ride in and be handsome and bold<br>
His hair must be curly as any watch-spring,<br>
And his whiskers as big as a brush for clothing"

Refrain

The words that she uttered went straight through my heart<br>
I sobbed and I sighed, and I straight did depart<br>
With a tear on my eyelid as big as a bean<br>
I bid farewell to Polly and to Paddington Green

Refrain

In six months she married, this hard-hearted girl<br>
But it was not a viscount, and it was not an earl<br>
It was not a ((not a typo|baronite)), but a shade or two worse<br>
It was a bow-legged conductor of a tuppenny bus

Refrain<br>
((col-end))

== References ==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiPOLLYPRK;ttPOLLYPRK.html Lyrics and Music to Pretty Polly Perkins]
*[http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/p/prettylittlepollyperkins.shtml Full version of lyrics]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120214045904/http://www.asaplive.com/archive/detail.asp?id=T0122001 FARNE (Folk Archive Resource North East)] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckrZIUYAEyc Live performance of Pretty Polly Perkins]
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/musichall/3.html Derek B Scott sings “Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green” (1863)]
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/musichall/4.html Derek B Scott sings “Cushie Butterfield” (1864)]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066279/soundtrack The Railway Children (1970) Soundtracks]

[[Category:Music hall songs]]
[[Category:1864 songs]]
[[Category:Songs about London]]
[[Category:Songs about fictional female characters]]

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