[Ads-l] Well, I'll be an SOB!

[Jonathan Lighter]

An early adumbration of the phrase:

1806 _O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes_ [n.p.,
n.d.] I 15 [tune title]: If Ever I Marry I Am a Son of A Wh__re.

http://imslp.org/wiki/O'Farrell's_Pocket_Companion_for_the_Irish_or_Union_Pipes_(Various)

Catchy!  There seems to have been an earlier ed. in 1805.

JL

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