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Thread #15756   Message #4018782
Posted By: r.padgett
13-Nov-19 - 03:04 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Fathom the Bowl
Subject: RE: Origins: Fathom the Bowl
The song now appears in the New Penguin Book of English Folk Song (EFDSS) 2012

sung by Robert Hard 1888 collected by Sabine Baring - Gould in Devon

Ray

some lyric changes but usual oral tradition will no doubt have been responsible