"It is nothing like a cantefable, much more like the early nineteenth century comic pieces "
Sigh......
It's exactly like a cante-fable - unless the rules have been changed by the new crowd
This gets tiresome Steve - I've been around enough authoritative people where exactly this ballad and our own 'Go For the Water' has been discussed as such
Bronson has no compunction in including it as a ballad, his only reservation is that there is no evidence of other versions in this form
I'm getting a little tired of these definitive statements based on no evidence whatever
If 'That little Shirt My Mother made For me' can be a folk song, then I'm damn sure a cante fable of this type can be regarded as what it has been widely recognised as for a long time
Please stop this one-upmanship
Jim Carroll