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Thread #80082 Message #3549093
Posted By: Steve Gardham
14-Aug-13 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Light Dragoon - a bit missing?
Subject: RE: Light Dragoon - a bit missing?
Thanks, Reinhard. Just to confirm, Harry List's version I do have. It appears on the Caedmon Series album 2, Folk Songs of Britain, Songs of Seduction as track 2 on the B side, and it doesn't have the extra verse.
Also the 'When will we be married, when cockle shells turn silver bells' commonplace is at least as old as the 17th century when ballads made up solely of such phrases were a common stock of the broadside printers, and indeed continued in oral tradition to be collected in the early twentieth century.