The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163394   Message #3898175
Posted By: Snuffy
08-Jan-18 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: Lads a-bunchum, Laudanum bunches
Subject: RE: Lads a-bunchum, Laudanum bunches
I've always had an sneaking suspicion that the tune(s) could be of foreign origin, and the English names are corruptions of the foreign (Gaelic? Breton? Finnish? Basque? whatever) title. But I have never pursued that line of enquiry.

I would be looking for something like "Lazan Banjam" or "Latza Panjum"