J. O. 272, 1849) generated zero opinion abreast of a form of the fresh track he posted rather than a song, and that i suspect he had maybe not heard they sung, because the the guy don’t hook it up in order to Jack Miller inside the after publication cited over. New version he gave try titled this new “Beggars off Ratcliffe Fair.” Nearly all the new beggars’ names provided in this variation try Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A beneficial Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Training #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized earlier statements toward three outlines off Jack Miller’s song, but none of them seem to have produce also a beneficial tentative identity which have any identified track. We have now produced one that I am hoping often remain. This might be as much as i can hold the topic at the expose.
I wish to thank Peter Kennedy into the tape recording away from Francis McPeake’s song and you will McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to possess their help. In addition continue as a consequence of Jennifer Cutting of one’s Western Folklife Cardiovascular system, Collection out of Congress, Washington, D.C. having transcription of your own track.
[Disappointed, I don’t have persission to place new tune right here. In the build it’s slightly including “Bragandary”, B541, and you may “Derry’s Fair” was contempoary to your 1st speak about when it, however, we don’t really have an adequate amount of “Derry’s Reasonable” so you’re able to more than strongly recommend a potential dating.]
Bonny Nick the fresh Currier
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Part 2, mainly Scots
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