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Frank Phillips Origin: The Butcher Boy / Butcher's Boy (32) RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song 30 Sep 97

The Clancy Brother's Irish songbook says it is "a variant of the widely known Gosport Tragedy." There is a reference to the Gosport Tragedy in the DT entry for Ship's Carpenter which says it was a garland(?) published in London ca. 1750.

One of the many printings of Soodlums Irish ballads claims it is "a simple ballad of English origin".

I don't have a detailed enough map of the British Isles to locate Gosport.

Frank

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