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Thread #25394   Message #2420251
Posted By: Jack Campin
22-Aug-08 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: Old Joe Clark. THE folk song/tune?
Subject: RE: Old Joe Clark. THE folk song/tune?
The tune is remarkably similar to the Elizabethan "How should I your true love know?" as sung by Ophelia in "Hamlet".

Any sightings of the melody in the intervening 300 years?