From collection Parker Dodge Collection
Polly Stevenson Whistling "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelley?"
Polly Stevenson in a sailor's blouse and sun hat sitting atop the gaff sloop DIXIE's cabin top, whistling "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelley?" on the way to a picnic on White Island east of Deer Isle, Maine"Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?", with music and lyrics by C. W. Murphy and Will Letters (1908), is a British music hall song, originally titled "Kelly from the Isle of Man". The song concerns a Manx woman looking for her boyfriend during a visit to London. It was adapted for American audiences by William McKenna in 1909 for the musical The Jolly Bachelors. Kelly is the most common surname on the Isle of Man.
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LB2023.10.123