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Thread #17058   Message #4070960
Posted By: Phil Edwards
06-Sep-20 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: Penguin: Banks Of Green Willow
Subject: RE: Penguin: Banks Of Green Willow
I like the 'toll the bell' verse - it's another one that Shirley Collins revived for her version. We don't hear it much, despite it being in Purslow's Wanton Seed version; I guess people find it anticlimactic.

I don't immediately recognise all those sources, but I'm curious about verses 10 and 11, as well as verse 6 (baby is delivered); I haven't seen them in any English versions apart from Baring-Gould's, which I don't entirely trust.