[78-L] Fairies (serious question!)

[David Lennick]

All right, sniggering all done? Good. Let's begin.

THERE ARE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR GARDEN..classic ditty rendered by 
Beatrice Lillie, originally on Gramophone Shop GV 1002; composer credit is 
LEHMANN (Liza, as I recall).

FAIRIES..rendered by Lovena Gilbert, in the 1929 "Cheerio" album, Roycroft 179; 
composer credit is WISE.

Same lyric, different melody. So we look up the words and discover a poem 
titled FAIRIES by Rose Fyleman (1877-1957). Exactly the same words. Seems 
Fyleman wrote the poem in 1917 and was a well known author, so wouldn't you 
think she'd have rated a lyricist credit somewhere along the line? Wasn't there 
a lawyer in the family?

dl