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Thread #64416 Message #1058567
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
21-Nov-03 - 11:33 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Croppy Boy (from Barbara Dickson)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Barbara Dickson (version of Croppy Boy)
That second verse is also missing in the transcription in Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland. It appears in the Belfast set in Sam Henry's Songs of the People, however, and in the set recorded by Hugh Shields (Folk Ballads from Donegal and Derry, 1972) -for example- in both cases as first verse instead of Sarah Makem's stanza. It does seem to be the more usual opening.