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Thread #28333   Message #351346
Posted By: Stewie
04-Dec-00 - 06:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Pretty Fair Maid
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: who are you my pretty fine dear...
This appears in the DT under the title 'As I Roved Out' where it is identified as an Irish variant of 'The Trooper and the Maid'. In their 'The Scottish Folksinger', Buchan and Hall give a Scots dialect version of 'Trooper' that is similar to the Redpath/Bikel version given in the DT. Child has 3 texts at #299.

--Stewie.