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Thread #132079   Message #2985378
Posted By: Steve Gardham
12-Sep-10 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Origin: The Girl I Left Behind
Subject: RE: The Girl I left Behind
Okay Jaime,
You need to look out for a book by Helen Creighton called 'Songs of Southern New Brunswick'. Page 106 has a version with tune. There is an Irish version with tune in Gale Huntington's 'Sam Henry's Songs of the People' p401. If you want a New England version there is one in Frank Warner's 'Traditional American Folk Songs' p340 with tune. Or New York State, there's a version with tune in Cazden etc 'Folk Songs of the Catskills' p159. The Canadian, Lorena Clark had a couple of different versions in her repertoire which are both in her book, and finally there are 2 Newfoundland versions in Ken Peacock's 'Songs of the Newfoundland Outports' Vol 2, pp449, 451.