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Thread #43706   Message #3972371
Posted By: Steve Gardham
20-Jan-19 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
Before moving on to the mid 19thc broadsides it's worth a look at the Nathaniel Coverley, Boston broadside reissued by Deeming of Boston. It takes us back to Tom Bolin again. There are 15sts (Thomas Coll. Vol 1, 21.) If I remember aright Coverley was c1820. The first 3 sts follow the late 18thc North British copies already referred to, and indeed most of the sts are found there (9) in some form or other but there are others from the general stock and some new ones as well.
4. no boots
7. mounted mare, sword and buckler, courting

new
12. after wedding dinner
14. after broken bridge wife gets out of water and goes off to search for TB
15. TB hides in a hollow tree.

It will be interesting to see if these new sts crop up in later American oral versions.