The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25270   Message #294971
Posted By: Snuffy
11-Sep-00 - 09:59 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Alison Cross / Allison Gross (Child #35)
Subject: Allison Gross
The version in the DT states: Child#35 Recorded by Steeleye Span, Parcel of Rogues

but the text is not Steeleye's version. The Steeleye version only covers the first 2/3 of what's in DT, has been "translated" into English, and has a chorus which is not in DT.

The DT version appears to be Scottish in origin and presumably older. Is it from Child or has it come from elsewhere?

Is the Steeleye Span tune the one traditionally associated with this older version? Or did they "borrow" their tune from somewhere else?

Wassail! V