Polly Wolly Doodle? (Where is that from?)

Factual Questions
#1

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Here I am in GQ with my first post on the new board. There are questions about Jesus, the Chief Justice, QBasic…and here I come with a question about “Polly Wolly Doodle”. Talk about ‘not quite fitting in’. :wink: )

Anyhoo…
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The song ‘Polly Wolly Doodle’. Where is that from?
A play?
A movie? (Appart from the obvious S.O.B. by Blake Edwards.)

Searches have turned up sites with lyrics and bad MIDI.

#2

According to this site, it’s from the minstrel shows which began in the 1840’s.

http://www.musicals101.com/minstrel.htm

#3

If you care to post this question on the Mudcat Cafe, you’ll almost certainly get some knowledgeable replies (it’s a site devoted to folk and blues music). I seem to recall that it’s quite an old song in the U.S.–Mercotan’s link may well be correct.