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Thread #158199 Message #3740094
Posted By: Lighter
27-Sep-15 - 08:09 AM
Thread Name: what do the words mean?Child Ballad 281(The Creel)
Subject: RE: what do the words mean?Child Ballad 281(The Creel)

My favorite recorded versions:

Jean Redpath (who sang it under the title of "The Wee Toon Clerk") and Ewan MacColl.

And I suppose that dates me.