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Thread #66367   Message #1102658
Posted By: GUEST,KB
27-Jan-04 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Earliest known English folk song
Subject: RE: Origins: Earliest known English folk song
Jeanie you are a star! I have been looking for "maiden in the moor lay" for AGES!!!! I came across it years ago in a poetry book (the words were updated a bit though - and its was "primrose and meadowsweet" for her meat), and I wrote a tune for it so I could sing it. Eventually I forgot the words & couldn't remember which book it was in & was left with fragments. Now I have it back again - thank you!
I had no idea it ws so old though! It was a very ordinary poetry book. I may have to hunt through for it again just to see what it attributes it to.

Kris