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Thread #143848   Message #3322886
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
14-Mar-12 - 03:46 PM
Thread Name: Origins: evolution of a song from middle ages
Subject: RE: Origins: evolution of a song from middle ages
If you're willing to go forward a bit things get easier. For example, The Babes In The Wood traces back to a broadside of 1595 and has 184 entries in the Roud index, up to recent times. Some are probably duplicates, but it still gives you a large corpus to look at.

Mick