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Thread #164528   Message #3940405
Posted By: Richie
30-Jul-18 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 4
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 4
Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the posts-- I fixed the Katherine Behan version. There was one stanza missing and a variant on the last line.

Cleveland's "My Bonny Bon Boy" sounds like "bonny, bonny boy" although it's hard to hear the second "bonny."

"Martin 'Junior' Crehan's version has no text but it's a nice fiddle rendition with a spoken description of the song.

I'll ck out all the other versions today. I just went through Roud's list of 926 versions (some of them are mistakes, multiples or reprints). Roud has done a great job with his index!!! I was surprised at the number of versions collected by Sharp (over 25) in the UK. The variants are hard to sort out, but like anything you do them one at a time :)

Richie