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Thread #17022   Message #2538293
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
12-Jan-09 - 04:33 PM
Thread Name: Where's Fennario?
Subject: RE: Where's Fennario?
I'm fairly certain that Greg somewhere has provided the satnav directions to Fennario - go straight on through Scarlett Town, and then turn left at Bucklesfordbery. If you reach Ballyjamesduff the you've gone too far.

I'm surprised that since the late Bruce Olson posted all his information 9 years ago about the earliest versions of Pretty Peggy-O nobody has managed to check other copies of his source.

Bruce Olson cited copies in the Library of Congress and Harvard Library of the "chapbook type songster" The Winter's Amusement; and Jolly Toper's Companion which contains the song Pretty Peggy of Derby O. The copies are apparently imperfect, but the Harvard copy had the imprint '42, Long Lane' which he associated with the printers