The note above labelled "Bonnie Pit Laddie" is probably from the notes for the recording TSCD486 The Bonnie Pit Laddie by The High Level Ranters.

A soundclip here shows the MacColl/Seeger rendition is definitely the second version of the tune. Did it pre-date MacColl, or can we attribute it to him?

Anybody have Sing Out! v.4 #2 p.10 or the reprint?

And examples of how Google might lead one astray, or at least afield:

Or maybe someone has record or recollection of a 1952 arrangement by Bernard Stevens for A.L. Lloyd's compilation "Coal Dust Ballads" (noted nearly at the bottom of this page)?

The video here looks a bit scary (from a traddy folk point of view).


~ Becky