The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25270   Message #296856
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Sep-00 - 10:05 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Alison Cross / Allison Gross (Child #35)
Subject: Is Child Online?
Oh, Snuffy, it would be wonderful if Child were online, but it ain't. We have many songs in the database that are transcribed from Child (but, as Susan says, not always identified as such). As I said above (probably while you were typing your question), the version of this song is very close to the Child version - Susan just typed the modern forms of some words, like perhaps "away" instead of "awa'" - very minor differences.
Mudcatter Bruce Olson (click) [now at /olson/viewpage.cfm] has some terrific old stuff on his site, but I don't think he's gone so far as to transcribe all ten volumes of Child. Bruce is always happy to answer questions, and many of us have Child and other old references available. Just post a question, and somebody will jump to respond.
-Joe Offer-