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Thread #166903   Message #4018465
Posted By: Reinhard
11-Nov-19 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: Idiot's lyric Q: TYT's 'John Barleycorn'
Subject: RE: Idiot's lyric Q: TYT's 'John Barleycorn'
The YT refer in their liner nores to Cecil Sharp who collected it from from John Stafford as printed in Folk Songs from Somerset:

Fol the dol the didi-ay
Fol the dol the didi-a-ge-wo

See also the thread Origins: John Barleycorn - But collected from Who.