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Thread #150417   Message #3517311
Posted By: Steve Gardham
20-May-13 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 5
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 5
American
2 Texas versions in Owens 1976, Owens claims it erroneously as a version of the Child Ballad.
Creighton, S New Brunswick.
Pound gives an Omaha version.
Another Texas version in Lomax, Our Singing Country

Catskills, Cazden etc has some interesting info on the refrains p503 but the version given is 277.

There are a couple of old British versions in Crawfurd and in John Bell by Harker.