The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3049   Message #14498
Posted By: Bruce
11-Oct-97 - 09:13 PM
Thread Name: Eppie Morie: What does it all mean?
Subject: RE: Eppie Morie: What does it all mean?
Ewan MacColl sang the song on the old Riverside label on the Child ballad series, then the whole series was reissued on the Washington label. It is noted there that MacColl's learned a version from his father and added verses from Samuel Wylie of Falkirk and from Child's text (that from James Maidment's North Countrie Garland).

I can't recall where I saw it, but I once read that MacColl's tune was the only traditional tune to ever have been turned up, so however someone else sings it has to do with art, not folksong. MacColl's is the only text with A traditional Tune.

By the way Helen, do you know who the SF at the end of the DT file stands for?