The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42939   Message #384362
Posted By: sadie damascus
28-Jan-01 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: Water is wide: song history request
Subject: RE: Help: 'Water is wide'
"Waly Waly" is actually a descendant of Child 204, "Jamie Douglas". It has come to share many general love-song verses, acquiring folkway quatrains that scan and keep the tears coming. Try all the verses from "Every night when the sun goes in" or "Down in the valley".