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Thread #159568   Message #3784057
Posted By: Jim Brown
07-Apr-16 - 03:42 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Gosport Tragedy/ Cruel Ship's Carpenter
Subject: RE: Origins: Gosport Tragedy/ Cruel Ship's Carpenter
> where did Findlater get her version?

According to the notes on the Tobar an Dualchais website:
"Ethel Findlater learned the words from a [manuscript] book given to her by Violet Harvey, but learned the tune from her mother-in-law; some extra lines were learned from a Mrs Mongano, now in Australia."
See: http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/63592/2
(She lived 1899-1973.)