Holloway and Black, "Later English Broadside Ballads" (U of Nebraska, 1975), is a collection of ballad sheets from the Madden Collection at Cambridge. Included is this piece, which is annotated "Northern Ireland" and "a very fine ballad": A New Song, Called Harry Newell When I came to this town They call'd me Harry Newell Now they've chang'd my name And they call me the raking Jewel Fal,lal, etc [sic] They put me to bed Thinking I was weary Sleep I could get none For thinking of my deary All the night awake
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