The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95986   Message #3535679
Posted By: Airymouse
09-Jul-13 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Oliver Cromwell (Buried & dead)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oliver Cromwell (Buried & dead)
Also available on the internet is Nellie Galt's Mulberry Hill. Nellie is a wonderful counterexample to the idea popularized in The Song Catcher that old songs are known only to the poor and uneducated.
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Gordon/sideBbandB5.htm
My family had more of a family bush than a family tree , but my half-sister's half sister's mother sang a version called "Old Crump's Dead". I haven't been able to find this version in print or on the internet, but I am waiting to hear back from an expert mudcatter about this and several other old songs that I have not been able to track down.