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Thread #164203 Message #3936870
Posted By: GUEST,Kevin W.
12-Jul-18 - 09:40 AM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
Richie, I've just finished reading your article on Child 10, my hat's off to you, that was a wonderfully detailed account of the many different forms this ballad has taken in English language versions.
I'm curious about Maud Long's version, in your article you write that she sang a more complete version than Jane Hicks Gentry, containing stanzas that Cecil Sharp had missed, and that it also had the resuscitation ending.
Her version does not have the instrument making stanzas, it ends with the miller being hanged. Is there another, more complete text of her version available?
I'm familiar with the recoding of Artus Moser singing the ballad as learned from Maud Long and it is the shorter text seen on your website.