The Bunch of Green Ribbons, is clearly related to the version of Once I Had a Sweetheart we are discussing - and comes from well before Derroll Adams' time (lyrics anyway, maybe not the tune) Some of the songs discussed in Mainly Norfolk seem to me to be completely different songs. Paddy Tunney's song is similar to Out of the Windows in the Sam Henry Collection and A Maiden Sat A-Weeping as sung by John Kirkpatrick looks to me like another set of lyrics not particularly related. I wonder why these very varied sets of lyrics are collated as one entry (and one Roud number? )
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