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"and Simon Dedalus too he was always turning up half screwed singing the second verse first the old love is the new was one of his so sweetly sang the maiden on the hawthorn bough he was always on for flirtyfying too" (U18.1290)
The song that Simon Dedalus sings half screwed, as discovered by Harald Beck, is "The Old Love and the New" by Frederic H. Cowen ((1852-1935). For the full text, see his article Two Unidentified Songs in the Penelope Episode in the James Joyce Online Notes.
