And thanks to you, Barry, for giving us his first name and leading us to his web site. For those who are unfamiliar with the song "Jack in the Green," it's there on the website with words and music. Great song!

The leads to Baring-Gould are good to have, as well. I treasure an old copy of Songs of the West in which someone has penciled in (in a lovely old-fashioned hand) many additions and corrections to the texts as published by the good Reverend. Dedicated though he was, he simply had to Bowdlerize some of his texts. After all, he was the "Reverend" Baring-Gould! I also read somewhere that he would learn the tunes from his singers, playing them on a penny-whistle, then take them back to his church and have the organist write them out for him. Unfortunately, that trained musician didn't believe the old geezers singing for Sabine could possibly be utilizing the ancient modes, therefore he "corrected" the intonations he assumed the collector had mislearned. How true? I dunno, but it sounds plausible to me. I've also read several of Baring-Gould's folklore studies (Primitive Folk Moots, for instance). Fascinating man!

This kind of homework is fun!

Sandy